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

Donald B. Keim, Ph.D.
John B. Neff Professor of Finance
Director, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Sheridan Titman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Finance
Director, Energy Management and Innovation Center
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.
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar of Finance
Research Director, Institute for Private Capital
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Michael Brandt, Ph.D.
Kalman J. Cohen Professor of Business Administration
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University

David T. Robinson, Ph.D.
The James and Gail Vander Weide Professor of Finance
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University

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

Tim Jenkinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance,
Said Business School
University of Oxford
Mila Getmansky Sherman, Ph.D.
Professor & Associate Director of CISDM
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Robert A. Jarrow
Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University 

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

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

Andrew Ang, Ph.D.
Managing Director and Head of Factor Investing Strategies
BlackRock
Former Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business
Columbia Business School