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Karen Hladik

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Karen Hladik

KAREN J. HLADIK, PhD ’84, business economics, is a quantitative specialist, focusing on quantitative modeling and portfolio analytics in the financial industry. She was the global head of the Risk and Quantitative Services Group in Global Securities Services at Goldman Sachs, working primarily with hedge fund clients in the US and abroad. Prior to that, she was the senior specialist in charge of McKinsey & Co.’s microeconomics practice, with global responsibility for specialized client work and development of McKinsey’s strategic and quantitative frameworks and tools. Karen is the author of International Joint Ventures: An Economic Analysis of US-Foreign Business Partnerships and contributed to the Goldman Sachs book The Practice of Risk Management. Currently, she is a benefactor of the British Sporting Art Trust and is working on a book on eighteenth-century British racehorse paintings and prints.