Charles Calomiris, Ph.D., Senior Expert

Charles W. Calomiris is a Senior Expert at Empiris LLC, the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and a Professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

Additionally, Professor Calomiris co-directs the Project on Financial Deregulation at the American Enterprise Institute and is the Arthur Burns Scholar in International Economics at AEI. He is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.  He is Chairman of the Board of Greater Atlantic Financial Corporation, a publicly traded bank based in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, and a Managing Partner of Gauss Fund, LP. He served on the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, a Congressional commission to advise the U.S. government on the reform of the IMF, the World Bank, the regional development banks, and the WTO.

Professor Calomiris’ research spans several areas, including banking, corporate finance, financial history, and monetary economics. He serves or has served as a consultant or visiting scholar for the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and St. Louis, the Federal Reserve Board, the World Bank, and the governments of Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, El Salvador, Connecticut and Massachusetts. His private sector clients have included Bank of America, Citicorp, Fenwick & West, Fleet, LeBoeuf Lamb, The Limited, Lloyds, Mayer Brown, Milbank Tweed, UBS Securities, U.S. Trust Corporation, and Wachtel Lipton.

Professor Calomiris earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Yale University.

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