Ronen Israel

Ronen’s primary focus is on portfolio management and research. He was instrumental in helping to build AQR’s Global Stock Selection group and its initial algorithmic trading capabilities, and now runs the Global Alternative Premia group, which employs various investing styles across asset classes. He has received an Outstanding Article award as part of the 17th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards from The Journal of Portfolio Management in 2015 and the Special Distinction Award as part of the Harry M. Markowitz Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Investment Management in 2015. He is on the executive board of the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, is an adjunct professor of finance at New York University, has been a guest speaker at Harvard, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, and is a frequent conference speaker. Prior to AQR, he was a senior analyst at Quantitative Financial Strategies Inc. Ronen earned a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A.S. in biomedical science from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and an M.A. in mathematics, specializing in mathematical finance, from Columbia.