>> Michelle Clayman, CFA, is the Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer of New Amsterdam Partners LLC, an institutional money management firm in New York.  Ms. Clayman has been published in the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Investing and NYSSA Financial Professionals' Post .  She is a frequent commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg and other financial media.  In addition, Ms. Clayman sits on the Boards of the Society of Quantitative Analysts (of which she is a past President), and The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, and is a volunteer for the CFA Institute. 

An active volunteer in her community, Ms. Clayman serves as a Director of Children of Bellevue, a charity providing services to children at New York's Bellevue Hospital.  She was a Girl Scout Leader for 17 years and has acted as a Course Director in Finance and Entrepreneurship for the East Harlem Tutorial Program.  She is a member of the Dean’s Council at the Harvard Divinity School. Ms. Clayman is also Chair of the Advisory Council of Stanford University’s Institute for Gender Research. Ms. Clayman received a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, England (MA (Oxon)), and an MBA from Stanford University, California.