Matthew Rothman

Matthew Rothman, Ph.D., is the global head of Quantitative Equity Strategies at Barclays Capital. He previously held the same role at Lehman Brothers prior to its purchase by Barclays Capital in September 2008. In his current capacity, he is responsible for U.S., Europe and Asia stock selection models, as well as sector selection and country selection models.  Dr. Rothman and his team also contributed to the development of equity risk models in POINT.  He is a member of the Firm’s Investment Policy Committee within the Global Research Division. 

Prior to joining the Firm in 2006, Dr. Rothman held Quantitative Equity positions at Sanford C. Bernstein, Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Dr. Rothman serves on the board of directors for the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Accounting Research and Education and is the co-chair of the Development Committee for the Innocence Project.  In addition to his responsibilities at Barclays Capital, Dr. Rothman is a visiting professor of economics at Brown University where he co-teaches a course on Empirical Asset Pricing in Financial Markets.  In the past, he has taught a similar course at the Johnson Business School at Cornell University. Dr. Rothman received his B.A. in Philosophy from Brown University before completing his Masters in Statistics at Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Finance at the University of Chicago.