Michael Ewens

Professor and Co-Director, Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School

Speaker

Michael Ewens is the David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance at the Columbia Business School and co-director of the school’s Private Equity Program. Prior to this, he was on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. His research studies private equity, venture capital, and the financing of high-growth entrepreneurial firms. There, he investigates the interactions and differences between the public and private capital markets. His research has appeared in the Economist, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. Since 2006, he has been a quantitative advisor for Correlation Ventures, a quantitative-focused venture capital firm. Prof. Ewens teaches private equity and entrepreneurial finance at the Columbia Business School.