# People

![Robert Litterman speaking at the 2018 Volatility Institute conference](/sites/default/files/styles/866w/public/assets/images/18-0293_0578.jpg?h=0d03de48&itok=UDkmRlHC)

##  People

The Volatility and Risk Institute relies on input from our External Advisory Board, Faculty Board, and Visitors.

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##  External Advisory Board

**Kenneth A. Buckfire**
*President and co-Founder, Miller Buckfire*

**Peter Cai**
*EVP, Chief Market & Treasury Risk Officer, KeyBank*

**Timothy Cuddihy**
*Managing Director and Group Chief Risk Officer, DTCC*

**Bruno Dupire**
*Head of Quantitative Research, Bloomberg L.P.*

**Nomi P. Ghez**
*Founding Partner, Circle Financial Group*

**Bryan Kelly**
*Principal, AQR Capital Management*

**Kenneth F. Kroner**
*Chief Executive Officer, Pluribus Labs*

**Richmond Mayo-Smith**
*Partner, Climate Finance Partners*

**Fabio M. Natalucci**
*Managing Director, CEO, Andersen Institute for Finance and Economics*

**Torsten Slok**
*Partner and Chief Economist at Apollo*

**Colin Teichholtz**
*Co-Head, Office of the CIO, Symmetry Investments*

**Nathaniel Wuerffel**
*Head of Market Structure and Head of Product, Global Collateral, BNY*

##  Faculty Advisory Board

[**Viral Acharya**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/viral-acharya)
*C.V. Starr Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business*
*Faculty Coordinator, Financial Risk*

[**Barry E. Adler**](https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=19732)
*Bernard Petrie Professor of Law and Business, NYU School of Law*

[**Edward I. Altman**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/edward-altman)
*Professor Emeritus of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Edward G. Amoroso**](https://cybersecurity-strategy-masters.nyu.edu/faculty/edward-amoroso/)
*Distinguished Research Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering*

[**Richard Berner**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-berner)
*Co-director, Volatility and Risk Institute*
*Clinical Professor of Management Practice in Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Vasant Dhar**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar)
*Professor of Information Systems, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Ian D'Souza**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ian-dsouza)
Clinical Professor of Finance*, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Robert F. Engle**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle)
*Co-director, Volatility and Risk Institute*
*Professor Emeritus of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Joshua M. Epstein**](https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/joshua-m-epstein)
*Professor of Epidemiology, NYU School of Global Public Health*

[**Shan Ge**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/shan-ge)
*Assistant Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Judith H. Germano**](https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=39773)
*Distinguished Fellow, NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) and NYU Center on Law & Security (CLS), NYU School of Law*

[**Celine R. Gounder**](https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/celine-r-gounder)
*Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine*

[**Hanna Halaburda**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/hanna-halaburda)
*Associate Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Robert J. Jackson Jr.**](https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=45659)
*Professor of Law, NYU School of Law*

[**Petter N. Kolm**](https://math.nyu.edu/people/profiles/KOLM_Petter.html)
*Clinical Professor of Mathematics, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences*

[**Nasir Memon**](https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/nasir-memon)
*Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering*

[**Randal S. Milch**](https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=42188)
*Professor of Practice, NYU School of Law*
*Faculty Coordinator, Cyber Risk*

[**Geoffrey Parsons Miller**](https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=20131)
*Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, NYU School of Law*

[**Yuki Miura**](https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/yuki-miura)
*Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Center for Urban Science + Progress, NYU Tandon*

[**Thomas Philippon**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-philippon)
*Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*
*Faculty Coordinator, Geopolitical Risk*

[**Michael Pinedo**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/michael-pinedo)
*Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Richard L. Revesz**](https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=20228)
*Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, NYU School of Law*

[**Matthew P. Richardson**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/matthew-richardson)
*Charles E. Simon Professor of Applied Economics, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Kim Schoenholtz**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/kim-schoenholtz)
*Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets*
*NYU Stern School of Business*

[Adam Solomon](https://adam-solomon.com/)
*Assistant Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Johannes Stroebel**](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jstroebe/)
*David S. Loeb Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*
*Faculty Coordinator, Climate Risk*

[**Marti Subrahmanyam**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/marti-subrahmanyam)
*Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance, Economics and International Business*
*NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Raghu Sundaram**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/leadership/nyu-stern-dean-raghu-sundaram)
*Edward I. Altman Professor of Credit & Debt Markets and Dean*
*NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Joshua Tucker**](https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/joshua-tucker.html)
*Professor of Politics, NYU College of Arts and Sciences*

[**Ingo Walter**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ingo-walter)
*Professor Emeritus of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Tensie Whelan**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan)
*Clinical Professor of Business and Society, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Lawrence J. White**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white)
*Robert Kavesh Professorship in Economics, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Robert F. Whitelaw**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-whitelaw)
*Edward C. Johnson 3d Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Cristiano Zazzara**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/cristiano-zazzara)
*Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business*

[**Cynthia Zeng**](https://www.cynthiazeng.com/)
*Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business in Abu Dhabi*

[**Stanley Zin**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/stanley-zin)
*William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, NYU Stern School of Business*

##  Visitors and Researchers

**Ahmet Karagozoglu**
*Visiting Scholar*

**Glenn Rudebusch**
*Visiting Research Professor*