Richard Levich & Momtchil Pojarliev

Teaches at JCC Culinary Arts

Richard M. Levich is professor of finance and international business and deputy chairman of the Department of Finance at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Previously, he served as chairman of the International Business Program at Stern. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a founding editor of the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting. Levich has been a visiting faculty member at many distinguished universities in the United States and abroad. He is the author or editor of 15 books dealing with international finance and more than 50 scholarly articles, in addition to numerous other published writings. In 1997, Levich received a CDC Award for Excellence in Applied Portfolio Theory from the Caisse Des Dépôts Group, France. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. Momtchil Pojarliev, CFA, is a senior portfolio manager for Hathersage Capital Management LLC and also serves as the chief investment officer of Cambex Holdings. He joined Hathersage after a decade of experience managing foreign exchange (FX) portfolios as the head of currencies at Hermes Pension Fund Management, senior FX portfolio manager at Pictet & Cie, and senior FX portfolio manager at Invesco. In addition, Pojarliev has advised various asset management firms, including PIMCO and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, in the area of currency return analytics. He has published extensively in finance and investment journals. He is a member of The Economic Club of New York and the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal. Pojarliev received an MSc in finance from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a PhD with honors in financial econometrics.