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Jim Leitner

Jim Leitner

Formal First Name
James (Jim)
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Jim Leitner serves as President of Falcon Management Corporation, a family office. Jim is known for amassing spectacular returns by using an investment approach that helped him make money across asset classes. In recent years, he established a program in international and comparative political economy at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, endowed a professorship in international studies, and supported a number of international summer internships. Jim established the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, an innovative “Think-and-Do Tank” that aims to make international human rights protection an everyday reality for marginalized communities around the world. He also established the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University.

Professional Experience


Academic History

EARLY CAREER

  • While trading the Eurodollar market at JP Morgan, he became an expert on euro swiss francs, euro deutsche marks and euro pesetas.

  • He then became an FX trainee with J.P. Morgan and then a currency forward trader.

  • Jim was then hired by the Bank of America to run forwards, exotics and all currency trading outside the major currencies.

  • He moved to Shearson Lehman as a proprietary trader, and later moved to Bankers Trust and spent five years trading currencies.

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

 

AFFILIATIONS AND INVOLVEMENT

 

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

  • Jim's volunteer service to Yale has extended across various disciplines, from astronomy and engineering to international studies.

  • He established the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School.

  • He also established the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University.

 

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