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Jonathan Knee

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Office: 325B Uris
Phone: 212-854-5246
Fax: 212-866-1377
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Office Hours: Wednesdays, 4pm to 5pm

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Adjunct Professor
Finance and Economics

Director
Media Program


BA, Boston University; MSc, Trinity in Dublin, Ireland; MBA, Stanford; JD, Yale
Year joined: 2001

Teaching and research interests

Professor Knee is a Senior Managing Director at Evercore Partners. Knee teaches Media Mergers and Acquisitions and co-teaches Strategic Management of Media with Professor Bruce Greenwald. Prior to becoming an investment banker, he was Director of International Affairs at United Airlines and served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University. Before joining Evercore in 2003, Knee was a Managing Director and Co-head of Morgan Stanley's Media Group. He was previously Publishing Sector Head in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at Goldman Sachs. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and he is the author of The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (Oxford: 2006).

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