William F. Jarvis, Executive Director of the Commonfund Institute, leads Commonfund’s educational, research and professional development activities. Bill is the managing editor of Commonfund Institute’s series of proprietary studies of nonprofit investment and governance practices and the author or co-author of numerous white papers and articles. He speaks at Commonfund’s annual Endowment Institute and Commonfund Forum as well as at other nonprofit and industry conferences. A financial services executive and attorney, Bill served as Commonfund Institute’s Head of Research from 2006-15. His career prior to joining Commonfund included working with J.P. Morgan, where he spent 13 years as an investment banker in New York and Tokyo; Greenwich Associates, where he advised leading investment management firms and led the fielding of the first Commonfund Benchmarks Study; and Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he provided legal advice to global banks and securities firms. He also served as Chief Operating Officer of a privately-held hedge fund manager based in New York City. Bill holds a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law, and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
