Seth Klarman

Seth Klarman is the CEO and portfolio manager of The Baupost Group, L.L.C., which currently manages approximately $30 billion on behalf of individual and institutional clients. He has had primary responsibility for managing the investments of Baupost since the company was formed in May 1982. Baupost uses a value discipline with an event-driven bias to find global opportunities in such diverse areas as publicly traded and private equities, bankrupt and financially distressed debt, and real estate.

Author of "Margin of Safety," a book that outlines his value investment philosophy, Klarman was chosen as lead editor for "Security Analysis: Sixth Edition," published in 2008, and has been featured in a variety of investment industry publications. He is a 1982 graduate of Harvard Business School (HBS), where he was a Baker Scholar, and received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in economics from Cornell University in 1979.

Klarman is co-chair of the leadership council of Facing History and Ourselves, a teacher training organization. He is also a member of the board of dean’s advisors at HBS, where he has been a senior lecturer on value investing, and was a 2011 recipient of the school’s Alumni Achievement Award. Klarman serves on the board of directors of the Broad Institute. Klarman is chairman of The Klarman Family Foundation.