Steve Strongin

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Steven H. Strongin
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BornJuly 30, 1958
Allentown, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
OccupationHead of Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs

Steven Strongin (born July 30, 1958) is a Senior Advisor at Goldman Sachs. [1] Previously, he was the head of Global Investment Research and chair of the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs. [2] He was a member of the Management Committee, Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee and was also co-chair of the Firmwide Technology Risk Committee. Strongin's writing on economic policy, investing and financial trends is featured across many news sources including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and Business Insider. [3] [4] [5] His article, “Beating Benchmarks,” won the Second Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for Outstanding Article after it was published in the Journal of Portfolio Management . [6] He holds three patents for financial instruments. One of his patents was the Wavefront system, which describes how economic shocks ripple through the economy into company performance, market value and equity returns in the US market. [7]

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Career

He joined Goldman Sachs in 1994, and became a managing director in 1998 and partner in 2002. [8] Prior to joining the firm, Strongin served as director of monetary policy research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago after a twelve-year career in the Economic Research Department. [9] [10]  He also served as an economist at the center for the Study of Economy and State at the University of Chicago and a researcher at PanHeuristics. [11]

At Goldman Sachs, Strongin serves on the advisory board to the RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and on the visiting committee to the college at the University of Chicago. [12] [13] He also serves as a director on the boards for the Ocean Conservancy and previously served as a director for New York City's Fund for Public Schools. [14] [15] He is a distinguished visiting professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Strongin is a jury member for the World Resources Institute's Ross Prize for Cities [16] and he is on the advisory council for the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. [17]

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