David Kabiller

David G. Kabiller is a Founder, Founding Principal, and Head of Business Development of AQR Capital Management,^[1][2] along with Cliff Asness, John Liew and Robert Krail.^[3] He initiated AQR’s international growth and its introduction of mutual funds^[4] and reinsurance^[3] as well as the creation of the AQR University^[3] symposia series and the AQR Insight Award for outstanding innovation in applied academic research.^[3]

David has co-authored papers on topics including derivatives,^[5] enhanced indexation,^[3] securities lending,^[3] insurance-linked securities,^[6] hedge funds^[3] and the secret of Warren Buffett’s investing acumen.^[7] He was profiled in Scott Patterson's book The Quants.

He is a member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees and large donor to both academic and athletic scholarship programs.^[8] He is a member of the Advisory Council of the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School^[9] and also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Terra Foundation for American Art.^[10] He is chairman of the Executive Council of the International Institute for Nanotechnology^[11] and donates $250,000 for a biannual Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine plus a $10,000 Kabiller Young Investigator Award in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine.^[12] He created NU for Life, a program to provide mentoring and career development for Northwestern University athletes.^[13]

Prior to AQR, he was a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co.^[14] He earned a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, where he received an athletic scholarship to play tennis and was named to the Big Ten Conference Academic All-Conference team.^[3]

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