Joel Stern Profile

Joel Stern has been associated with approximately twenty graduate schools of business around the world. He has taught a Special Topics elective called the Theory and Policy of Modern Finance at Carnegie Mellon University for the past ten years, the University of Chicago for the past three years, at Columbia University since 1976 (with a brief three-year hiatus in the mid-1980s), and at the University of Cape Town in South Africa as a visiting professor since 2003 and this appointment runs five years. In addition, he teaches at the graduate school at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia) and at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. In the past, he has taught at Michigan, the William E. Simon School at the University of Rochester, the London Business School, the Australian Graduate School of Management, the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, the Anderson School at UCLA and the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa among others.

He is the author of two books and the co-author of six others, all in financial economics. He has been a financial policy columnist for the Financial Times of London for four years and his articles have also appeared on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. For two years, he was a guest columnist for The Sunday Times of London, and for seventeen years, he was a rotating panelist on the national television program “Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser” and he has served on the boards of six firms and two charitable foundations.

He is a member of the Council of The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and he has been a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester for twenty-one years.

For the past twenty-five years, he has been one of three economists to give the annual Business Forecast at The University of Chicago each December.