FORA.tv Speaker - David Beim

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 bachelor's in political science from Stanford, and he continued his education as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, earning a master's in politics. Beim's Wall Street career included 10 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 1975-77. Following that, he joined Bankers Trust Company to start and run its investment banking business. During 1978-87, he was executive vice president and head, corporate finance department, and member of the management committee at Bankers Trust. From 1987 to 1989, he was a managing director at Dillon Read & Co.