Thought Leadership
Advisory Board

Henry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Henry Kaufman is President of Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., a firm established in April 1988, specializing in economic and financial consulting. For the previous 26 years, he was with Salomon Brothers Inc, where he was Managing Director, Member of the Executive Committee, and in charge of the Firm’s four research departments. He was also a Vice Chairman of the parent company, Salomon Inc. Before joining Salomon Brothers, Dr. Kaufman was in commercial banking and served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Dr. Kaufman, who was born in 1927, received a B.A. in economics from New York University in 1948, an M.S. in finance from Columbia University in 1949, and a Ph.D in banking and finance from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration in 1958. He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from New York University in 1982, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Yeshiva University in 1986, and from Trinity College in 2005. Dr. Kaufman’s latest book, The Road to Financial Reformation, was published in August 2009. Prior to that, he wrote On Money and Markets, A Wall Street Memoir, which was released in June, 2000. In 1987, Dr. Kaufman was awarded the first George S. Eccles Prize for excellence in economic writing from the Columbia Business School for his book, Interest Rates, the Markets, and the New Financial World.

Besides his business activities, Dr. Kaufman is active in a number of public organizations in the following capacities:

  • Member of the Board of Trustees (and former President), The Animal Medical Center;
  • Member of the Board of Trustees (and Chairman Emeritus), Institute of International Education;
  • Member of the Board of Trustees and Member of the Investment Committee, Norton Museum of Art
  • Treasurer & Member, Investments/Finance Committee, The Economic Club of New York
  • Member (and Chairman Emeritus), Board of Overseers, Stern School of Business, New York University
  • Member, International Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
  • Member, Advisory Committee to the Investment Committee, International Monetary Fund Staff Retirement Plan;
  • Member of the Board of Governors, Tel-Aviv University.
  • Member, Investment Committee, UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey
  • Life Trustee, New York University
  • Life Trustee, The Jewish Museum

  Advisory Board

Eduardo Aninat, Ph.D.

Senator Bill Bradley

The Honorable Carole L. Brookins

Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA

Henry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Judge Richard A. Posner

The Honorable Randal K. Quarles

Richard L. Sandor, Ph.D., Dr. Sc.h.c.

Myron S. Scholes, Ph.D.



Experts  

Lawrence Goodman
President

Steve H. Hanke
Special Counselor

Bruce Tuckman
Director / Financial Markets Research

William A. Barnett
Director / Advances in Monetary and Financial Measurement

Bradley J. Bondi
Senior Fellow / Legal Studies

Steven Lofchie
Senior Fellow / Legal Studies

Robin L. Lumsdaine
Senior Fellow / International Finance

Kurt Schuler
Senior Fellow / Financial History

Kim Leslie Shafer
Senior Fellow / Legal Studies

Jeff van den Noort
Chief Technology Officer

Yubo Wang
Senior Fellow / Financial Markets

Patricia Wilson Fridley
Senior Advisor

LeAnn Yee
Manager of Communications and Development

Jia Liu
Research Associate

Ryan Scott Mattson
Research Associate