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

Steven Kaplan, Ph.D.
Neubauer Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Amir Sufi, Ph.D.
Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Finance, and Public Policy
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Michael Ewens, Ph.D.
David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance
Co-Director of the Private Equity Program
Columbia Business School

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

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

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

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

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.
Former Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business
Columbia Business School