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Speakers
Professor David Beim had a 25-year career
in investment banking, following which he became a Professor
in the Finance and Economics Division of Columbia Business
School. He joined Columbia as an Adjunct Professor in
1989, and has been a full-time Professor of Professional
Practice since 1991. His areas of teaching include corporate
finance, international banking and emerging financial
markets. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political
Science from Stanford University in 1963. He continued
his education as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University,
earning a M. Phil. in Politics in 1966. His Wall Street
career included ten years at First Boston Corporation
(1966-75) where among other assignments he started and
ran the Project Finance Group. He served as Executive
Vice President of the Export Import Bank of the United
States during 1975-1977. Following that, he joined Bankers
Trust Company to start and run the bank’s investment banking
business. During 1978-1987 he was Executive Vice President
and Head, Corporate Finance Department, and member of
the Management Committee at the Bankers Trust Company.
From 1987-1989 Professor Beim was a Managing Director
at Dillon Read & Co. Inc. In the year 2000 Professor
Beim published a textbook with Professor Charles Calomiris
called Emerging Financial Markets. His articles include:
"Why are Banks Dying?" Columbia Journal of World
Business, Spring 1992; "Beyond the Savings and Loan
Crisis," The Public Interest, Spring 1989; and "Rescuing
the LDCs," Foreign Affairs, July 1977. He has written
numerous papers on banking and finance in connection with
consulting projects. These include “The Determinants of
Bank Loan Pricing” (1996), “What Triggers a Banking Crisis?”
(2001) and “Japan’s Internal Debt” (2002). Professor Beim
serves as a director of a cluster of mutual funds managed
by Merrill Lynch. His non-profit work includes: Chairman
of Wave Hill; former Chairman of Outward Bound, Inc.,
Trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, Member of Council
on Foreign Relations and Governor, West Chop Club.
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