Dr. Vikram Mansharamani is a Lecturer at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he teaches a class on systems thinking. He is also the founder of Kelan Capital, an investment management firm that manages a global thematic fund. Between 2009 and 2017, he was on the faculty of Yale University where he taught classes on financial bubbles, economic inequality, and business ethics. In addition to being the author of the much-acclaimed Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst (Wiley, 2011), his weekly commentary on geo-economics, geo-politics, and technological trends led LinkedIn to highlight Dr. Mansharamani as their #1 Top Voice in Money, Finance, and Economics for both 2015 and 2016.  

Mansharamani earned a PhD and SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a SM in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BA from Yale University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.