Kim Lew

Chief Executive Officer / President, Columbia Investment Management Company, LLC

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Biography

Kim Y. Lew is CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company which manages the endowment of Columbia University in the city of New York.  Previously, she was the CIO of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the private grant making foundation founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 which she joined from the Ford Foundation. Lew started her career in the middle market banking group of Chemical Bank and following business school joined Prudential Capital Group.

Lew graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S in Economics and from the Harvard Graduate School of Business with an MBA. She is a CFA Charterholder and has served both as a standard setter and grader.

Lew has been on CIO magazine’s Power 100 list since 2018 and was the 2021 recipient of Institutional Investors Lifetime Achievement Award.  

Lew serves on the Boards of Ariel Investment Management Mutual Funds, Girls Who Invest and the Public Theater.  She serves on the investment committees of the  National Gallery of Arts and William Penn Foundation. She co-chairs the Milken Institute Global Capital Markets Advisory Committee and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the New York Fed’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets.