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American fintech expert and finance professor
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Kathleen Traynor DeRose
CitizenshipUnited States of America
Alma materUniversity of Oxford, Princeton University, New York University Stern School of Business, London School of Economics, Haute Ecole Commerciale
AwardsHenry Ko prize
Scientific career
FieldsFintech
Finance
InstitutionsNew York University Stern School of Business

Kathleen Traynor DeRose is an American fintech expert and a finance professor. Her areas of special interest and expertise are asset and wealth management, financial technology and quantitative finance, and China's political economy and technology development.

Career

DeRose is a Clinical Associate professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she leads Stern’s fintech initiatives. She is the Fintech Director for the Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation at the university, where she chairs the Fintech Advisory Board. She serves as a non-executive director on the boards of the London Stock Exchange Group plc., Enfusion, Experian, and Voya Financial, and served as a non-executive director 2015-2020 and as the board chair 2015-2017 of Evolute AG.

She spent over thirty years in the asset and wealth management industries, as a portfolio manager of institutional, ultra-high net worth, and 1940 Act mutual funds, and ultimately in global senior leadership roles. She was a Managing Director and Head of Business Strategy and Solutions at Credit Suisse, the head of Research and Portfolio Management at Hagin Investment Management, and a Managing Director at Bessemer Trust, Deutsche Bank, Zurich Insurance and Scudder Stevens and Clark. She began her career as an equity analyst at JPMorgan Chase.

Education

DeRose earned her MSc., with distinction, from the University of Oxford where her thesis, "Wagering on Welfare; Explaining Provincial Variation in the Chinese Welfare Lottery," earned the Henry Ko prize. She has an MBA from the TRIUM program, a joint degree program from the New York University Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics, and the Haute Ecole Commerciale (HEC). She earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

Philanthropy

DeRose founded the “Kathleen Traynor Research Fund” at Princeton's Bendheim Center for Finance, which supports women's research in finance. She also helped to fund scholarships for women at TRIUM and NYU Stern. She is on the board of Non-traditional Employment for Women (NEW), a New York City not-for-profit.

Citations

  1. "NYU Stern Faculty Bio".
  2. "Fubon Center's Fintech Initiative led by Professor DeRose".
  3. "London Stock Exchange welcomes Professor Kathleen DeRose as new Independent Non-Executive Director".
  4. "Kathleen Traynor DeRose Joins Voya Financial Board of Directors". About Voya Financial. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  5. "Kathleen Millard was appointed head of equities at Bessemer Trust".
  6. "Kathleen Traynor DeRose, MSc 2015 (distinction) receives Ko Prize for best Chinese Studies MSc dissertation in 2014-15".
  7. "NEW Board of Directors".
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