AIF is an independent economic think tank focusing on institutional investment policy
Advisory Boards

Academic Board

Josh Lerner

Academic Board Chair

Josh Lerner

Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Harvard Business School

Academic Board Members

Josh Lerner, Ph.D.
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Harvard Business School

Andrew Lo, Ph.D.
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance
Director, Laboratory for Financial Engineering
MIT Sloan School of Management

Laura Starks, Ph.D.
George Kozmetsky Centennial Distinguished University Chair,
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin

Sheridan Titman, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin

John Geanakoplos, Ph.D.
James Tobin Professor of Economics
Yale University

Gregory Brown, Ph.D.
Weatherspoon Distinguished Scholar of Finance
Research Director, Institute for Private Capital
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Michael Brandt, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University

David T. Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University

Christopher Polk, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance
London School of Economics

Tim Jenkinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance
Said Business School
University of Oxford

Mila Getmansky Sherman, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance
Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst

Robert A. Jarrow
Professor of Investment Management
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University 

Randolph B. Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Harvard Business School
Visiting Associate Professor of Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management

Mark Mitchell, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Finance
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Andrew Ang, Ph.D.
Managing Director and Head of Factors, Sustainable and Solutions
BlackRock
Former Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business
Columbia Business School