Charles D. Ellis, managing partner of the international business strategy consulting firm Greenwich Associates, has been named to the Yale Corporation, according to an announcement by President Richard C. Levin.
Mr. Ellis' consulting firm, Greenwich Associates, serves the major commercial and investment banks, securities dealers, investments managers, and insurance companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He is the author of several books on investment policy -- including "Institutional Investing," "The Second Crash," "Classics," "Classics II," "Investment Policy" and "The Repurchase of Common Stock" -- and of dozens of articles for business and professional publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Institutional Investor.
"As a member of the University's Investments Committee, Charles Ellis has provided us with wise and insightful counsel. I am very pleased that he will extend his valued service to Yale as a trustee of the Corporation," said President Levin in making the announcement.
Mr. Ellis has been a member of the visiting faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and of the Yale School of Management, and is a past president and trustee of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. He is currently president of the Association of Investment Management and Research, which serves 25,000 members of the investments profession. A 1959 graduate of Yale, he earned an M.B.A. at the Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in financial economics at New York University. Mr. Ellis resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The Yale Corporation, the University's governing body, consists of 19 members: 10 who are appointed by the board itself as successor trustees; six who are elected by alumni; the governor and lieutenant governor of the State of Connecticut, who are members ex officio; and the president of the University, who is the board's presiding officer.
Mr. Ellis will serve as a successor trustee; his term will begin July 1. He succeeds David L. Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, and former U.S. senator and governor of that state, who leaves the Yale Corporation after serving as trustee since 1988.