JHU Carey Professor Takes Seat on Hedge Fund Advisory Board
Non-profit. Hedge fund. Not the two ideas you’re most likely to see in a sentence together. But we’ve seen stranger things in Washington.
This fall, John Hopkins professor Jim Liew will be heading into DC to fill his seat as an academic advisor for a non-profit lobbying group. And, you guessed it, it’s for hedge funds.
The group, imaginatively titled the Hedge Fund Association (HFA), is working hard to ensure that the interests of hedge fund managers everywhere will be represented in Washington–because if there’s one complaint about who’s getting too little representation in Washington…
HFA established its academic advisory board earlier this year to help educate students about the hedge fund industry–and help prepare its future leaders.
“Having well-esteemed professors on the board… [with] vast experience in an academic setting will be an added complement to the other executives who are members,” HFA’s president, Mitch Ackles, recently told Global Investor Magazine.
Jim Liew would seem to fit the bill. With a PHD in Finance from Columbia Business School, he is currently Chairman of NYU Stern’s Hedge Fund Association and CEO of JKL Capital Management, alongside a past role as Senior Managing Director of PlusFunds–this in addition to his extensive research on hedge funds.
Liew’s association with the Hedge Fund Association reflects one of many benefits of studying business in DC, where business and government interests often converge.
