IU alumnus Joon Park will provide an economic overview of the last decade and discuss financial reform post the Great Recession of 2008. He will discuss how that reform created a shadow banking industry that launched a tech renaissance and its unintended consequences, such as the rise of populism and the retreat of globalization into regional super-powers.
Joon Park is the Chief Operating Officer - Investment Management at Alyeska Investment Group, L.P., a Fundamental Equity Market Neutral hedge fun based in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Park holds a BA from Indiana University in Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literature and earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. At Alyeska Investment Group, Mr. Park is responsible for Investor Relations, Marketing and Business Development across the firm. Alyeska manages the pensions of major global corporations, government institutions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations along with other institutional investors.
Prior to joining Alyeska, Mr. Park served at Citadel Investment Group for 6 years, where he was Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the Global Equities Division. Previously, Mr. Park served at Merrill Lynch where he was a Vice President in their Global Securities Research & Economics department. Mr. Park has also worked at Deloitte Consulting and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Mr. Park has lived and worked on four continents. In 2013, Mr. Park launched the Joon K. Park student scholarship through the IU Foundation in partnership with the IU Asian Culture center. Mr. Park serves on the board of Indiana University's Executive Dean of the College of Arts & Science, Northwestern University's Kellogg Alumni Council of Chicago, and Indiana University's Asian Alumni Association.
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