Professor Dr. Mark Mitchell

Biography

Mark Mitchell is the Founding Principal of AQR Arbitrage, LLC, an investment management firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, focused on arbitrage strategies. He serves as the CEO of Grand Teton Group, Inc., a Jackson, Wyoming-based company that manages a range of businesses in private investments across multiple sectors and asset classes. In 2018, he returned to academia, rejoining the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Prior to co-founding AQR Arbitrage in 2001, Mitchell was a finance professor at Booth from 1990 to 1999 and at Harvard Business School from 1999 to 2003. He has received four paper-of-the-year awards for his significant contributions to finance research. Mitchell remains active in academic research with a focus on finance-related topics and has received five teaching awards from the University of Chicago. He co-authored the textbook 'Mergers, Restructuring Corporate Governance.' Mitchell served as an emissary for the U.S. State Department in 2007 and has held various roles on boards, including TD-Ameritrade Holding Corporation, where he chaired multiple committees. Before his academic career, he worked in the Office of the Chief Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, focusing on merger regulation and financial economics.

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