Kim Lew

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 as both a standard setter and grader.

Lew was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Institutional Investor and has been on the CIO Power 100 list since 2018. Lew is 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 the Arts and the William Penn Foundation. Most importantly, she is the mother of two amazing daughters.