MICHAEL WEINBERG

Managing Director, Head of Hedge Funds and Alternative Alpha

APG ASSET MANAGEMENT US INC.

For three decades Michael has invested directly at the security level and indirectly as an asset allocator in traditional and alternative asset classes. His most recent role, Managing Director and the Head of Alternative Investments at First Republic. Previously Michael was a Managing Director, on the Investment Committee and a board member at APG, a Dutch pension provider, and the Chief Investment Officer at MOV37 and Protege Partners. As an Adjunct Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia Business School, he teaches Institutional Investing, an MBA course that he created. He was a portfolio manager and global head of equities at FRM, a multi-strategy investment solutions provider. Prior to that, Michael was a portfolio manager at Soros, the macro fund, foundation and family office, and at Credit Suisse. Before that he was a Real Estate analyst at Dean Witter.

His responsible investing career started as an investor for George Soros’s foundation, then continued at FRM, Protégé and APG, a world leader in Environmental, Social and Governance investing. Michael has taught ESG investing at business schools. He co-authored an academic paper on using machine learning to optimize allocation to the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals, published by The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing. Michael is a former co-founder of Project Punch Card, a not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to increase diversity by facilitating investment careers for under-represented groups.

Michael is on AIMA’s Global Investor Board, Milken Institute’s Global Capital Markets Advisory Council, the management advisory council for the Michael Price Student Investment Fund and a Special Advisor to The Tokyo University of Science’s Endowment. He is a co-founder of the podcast Improving Alpha: Innovation in Investing, ESG and Technology, and a former co-founder of The Artificial Intelligence in Finance Institute. Michael is a member of The Economic Club of New York. As a former Chair at CFANY, he received multiple awards, including Volunteer of the Year. Michael has researched the impact of AI on Finance for The World Economic Forum. He also testifies as an expert witness.

Michael is a published author, having written for The New York Times, international investment books and other publications, and been interviewed by world leading media print and online media. Michael is a frequent panelist and lecturer for wealth management, institutional and family office organizations. He has a BS from New York University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.