Leslie Jeng

Leslie Jeng is Director of Research of the Private Capital Research Institute. She has been with the PCRI since its inception. In addition, she is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. From 1998-2001, Leslie was an assistant professor of Finance and Economics at Boston University School of Management. Her areas of interests are Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions and Regulation, International Finance, and Public Policy. Her publications include “The determinants of venture capital funding: An empirical analysis,” Journal of Corporate Finance 2000 and “Estimating the Returns to Insider Trading: A Performance-Evaluation Perspective,” The Review of Economics and Statistics 2003. Also, Leslie has worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and quantitative investment research at Arrowstreet Capital. Leslie received her BS and BA degrees in Finance and Mathematics from the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.