Dan Alpert
Dan Alpert is the Founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital, an investment firm based in New York, and its affiliates. He is also a Senior Fellow in Macroeconomics and Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School. Dan is a Wall Street veteran and investment banker with more than 35 years of international merchant banking and investment banking experience, including a wide variety of work-out and bankruptcy related restructuring transactions. Previously, he served as a Fellow in Economics at The Century Foundation, the country's oldest policy think tank, and Senior Vice President at Oppenheimer & Co. Since the financial crisis that erupted in 2008, Dan has become a widely-sought and -cited author on economic policy. He is a frequent commentator on financial and economic issues in many print publications and on broadcast media. He is the author of The Age of Oversupply, cited as one of the best diagnoses of the world’s economic ills in the new millennium.
Dan Alpert Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founding Managing Partner
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Senior Vice President
Academic History
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B.S., Public Policy
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Founder, World Economic Roundtable
Member, Investopedia's Financial Review Board
Adviser, Coalition for a Prosperous America
EXPERTISE
Throughout his career, Dan has been the senior banker responsible for client relationships and execution of debt and equity offerings that were the first of their kind at the time.
Over the past 15 years, he has provided and/or arranged for financing for, and advised both debtors and creditors of, a number of distressed companies – both inside and outside of bankruptcy.
He is a pioneer in securitizations and other innovative financing techniques and regularly writes and speaks on big macro-structural issues.
In addition to his structured finance expertise, he has extensive experience advising on mergers, acquisitions and private equity financings.
He has provided expert testimony in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in cases involving debtors involved in structured finance transactions.
EARLY CAREER
Dan started working in commercial real estate banking and finance in 1982.
He was a Banker and Partner at Oppenheimer & Co., where he worked on international merchant banking, bankruptcy-related restructuring transactions, commercial mortgage backed securities, and mortgage REITs.
He is the co-creator of the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index, an economic metric that measures of higher wage versus lower wage private sector jobs.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Dan is also widely quoted in print outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, AP, Forbes, Fortune, and many others.
He is a frequent guest commentator on all of the principal business news networks – Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business News – and also appears on CNNI and the BBC.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.
PUBLICATIONS
He is the co-author of The Way Forward, which received much attention from members of the U.S. Congress as well as from The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, NPR, and other media.
He is also the co-author of The Debt Goes On, widely viewed as the most comprehensive update of the nation’s private debt challenges since the end of the last crisis.