Speaker Biographies

Diane Keefe

CBS '84, VP and Portfolio Manager, Pax World Funds

Diane Keefe is the portfolio manager for the first high yield bond fund established with comprehensive social screens. Ms. Keefe joined the Pax World Management Corp. in April, 1999 to spearhead this new business for the Pax World Fund Family. Ms. Keefe has specialized in High Yield bonds since 1989. Prior to founding the Pax World High Yield Fund, Ms. Keefe was a Director in the Global Rates Dept. at SBC Warburg Dillon Read. Her career on the trading floor spanned 12 years.

She has an MBA in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and was granted the CFA designation in 1992. She is a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts and the Association of Investment Management and Research. She has a BA in Political Economy from Wellesley College, Class of ’79.

Since 1986, she has served on the Board of Directors of Co-op America, a national non-profit organization whose mission is to harness the economic power of socially responsible businesses and individuals as consumers and investors to create a social just and environmentally responsible society, and has served as its Chairperson for the last 5 years. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Norwalk Land Trust in Connecticut, a member of the Board of Trustees, New York Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends, and a member of the Peace and Service Committee of the Wilton, CT Monthly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends, (Quakers), a Trustee of Friends Seminary in New York City and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Community Capital Association.

She is married to John Levin, a hedge fund portfolio manager and human rights activist. They have two children and reside in New York City and Norwalk, Ct.