Heiner Schulz

Heiner Schulz
Lecturer, Finance
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HeinerSchulz
Lecturer in Management
Academic Area: 
Finance

Bio

Heiner Schulz is a lecturer at the Stanford GSB and expert on global financial markets. He was most recently a macro strategist at Point72 Asset Management, a family office hedge fund based in Stamford, CT. Before joining Point72’s predecessor SAC Capital Advisors he was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He was a visiting researcher at the Bank of Korea and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and held fellowships from the Sloan Foundation and Hoover Institution. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford and degrees in international affairs and economics from Columbia and the University of Munich.

Academic Appointments

  • W. Glenn Cambell and Rita Ricardo-Cambell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, 2006-07

Teaching

Degree Courses

2016-17

This course explores how economic and political forces interact to shape the financial system. The financial system is rife with conflicts of interests that markets fail to address effectively. The political process meant to correct these market...

2015-16

The 2007-09 financial crisis exposed the extreme fragility of the financial system and the harm financial crises can cause. Have regulatory reforms in the US and Europe been effective and, if not, how and why? Does it matter if some institutions...