SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Alicia Ogawa
Uris Hall, Room 321
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-9054
ar2249@columbia.edu

Biography:
Alicia Ogawa is Director of the Program on Alternative Investments at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at the Columbia Business School. Until 2006 she was Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, where she was responsible for managing the firm's global equity research product. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Ms. Ogawa spent fifteen years in Tokyo, where she was a top-rated bank analyst and Director of Research for Nikko Salomon Smith Barney, having managed the original Salomon Brothers Research Department through three mergers. An authority on the Japanese financial system, she has been called to testify in Congress several times and has published extensively in academic journals in addition to equity research reports. Prior to moving to Japan, she worked as a Research Assistant to the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry on a number of U.S.-Japan trade negotiations. She is a member of the board of directors of The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and is on the board of directors of MW Turnbull, a London-based Asian hedge fund. She is also a member of the President's Circle of the All Stars Project, a development program for inner city students, and is on the advisory board of the U.S.-Japan Society Innovators Project. In 2004, she was inducted into the Academy of Women Achievers. She graduated from Barnard College and earned a master's degree in international affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.