Jim Chanos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kynikos Associates LP, the world’s largest exclusive short selling investment firm. Throughout his investment career, Mr. Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters. His celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron’s as “the market call of the decade, if not the past fifty years.” The media has noted his prescience in alerting finance ministers and others about the global financial crisis well before it occurred.

Mr. Chanos is currently a Lecturer in Finance and Becton Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He serves as Chairman of the Coalition of Private Investment Companies, President of the Board of Trustees of The Browning School, and a Trustee at The Nightingale-Bamford School and The New-York Historical Society.  Mr. Chanos received his BA in economics and political science from Yale University in 1980.