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Paul Johnson, Executive Director

Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson has been an adjunct professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business since 2015. He teaches Value Investing and is a fellow at Fordham’s Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis. Johnson received the Gabelli School of Business grad-uate-level Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence in May 2017 and the Adjunct Faculty Dean’s Award for Impact in May 2021. He also is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he has taught 58 semester-long courses on securities analysis and value investing to more than 3,500 full-time and Executive M.B.A. students.

Johnson is on the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and has been an integral part of the Columbia Business School Value Investing Program for over 30 years. He received the Columbia Business School Commitment to Excellence award five times (2016, 2017, 2019, and twice in 2022) in recognition of his outstanding commitment to the students’ educational experience, as well as the Columbia Business School Dean’s Prize for Teaching Excellence in April 2017. He has taught courses on Value Investing, Global Macroeconomics, and Financial Markets at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and has lectured at Notre Dame University Business School.

Johnson is co-author with Paul Sonkin of “Pitch the Perfect Investment, The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street,” published in September 2017. He is a co-author with Paul Sonkin of “The Enduring Value of Roger Murray,” which was published in November 2022. Johnson was a contributing annotator to “The Most Important Thing, Illuminated,” by Howard Marks, (a book Warren Buffett considers to be one of the three most important investment books published). He was co-author of the history of value investing in “Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas,” a book celebrating the School’s 100-year anniversary; and, co-author of “The Gorilla Game, Picking Winners in High Technology,” which reached BusinessWeek’s best-seller list and was the number one best-selling investment book on Amazon.com for several weeks in 1998.
Johnson holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Executive Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

James Russell Kelly, Chairman

jim-kellyJames Russell Kelly, the chairman of the advisory board of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, is also the founding director of the Center, serving in that position from 2013 until 2024.
He also is an adjunct professor in finance and economics at the Gabelli School of Business, where he teaches courses in value investing and the Student Managed Investment Fund.

Kelly has more than 30 years of experience in the international capital markets, including senior-level positions in international securities sales and trading at Merrill Lynch, where he was vice president of institutional sales; Deutsche Bank Securities, as senior vice president and manager of the international fixed-income sales and trading department; and Auerbach Grayson & Co., as executive vice president of equity emerging markets. While at Deutsche Bank, he also served as marketing director of Deutsche Bank Research, the bank’s macroeconomic research institute. He has been teaching finance at Fordham continuously since 2002.

Kelly holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Sris Chatterjee, Gabelli Chair in Global Security Analysis

sris-chatterjeeAcademic research is directed by Sris Chatterjee, the Gabelli Chair in Global Security Analysis.

Professor Chatterjee has taught a variety of courses, including Mergers and Acquisitions, Principles of Modern Finance and Behavioral Finance, at the undergraduate, graduate and executive MBA levels. In 1995, he received Fordham’s Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at the graduate school.

Professor Chatterjee got his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and his postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He received his MPhil and PhD from Columbia Business School. Before joining the Fordham faculty, Professor Chatterjee taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Rutgers University and Columbia University. He has taught in the Key Training Program at UBS Wealth Management, where he participated in curriculum development and in writing training material. He also has taught in executive MBA programs at other schools.

Widely published, Professor Chatterjee’s main research interest is corporate finance. His work has been showcased in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Management and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

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