Brown investment leader Joe Dowling to join global investment firm Blackstone Dowling, who has played a key role in the growth of Brown University’s endowment since 2013, will leave Brown to serve as global co-head of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, effective Jan. 12, 2021. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Joseph “Joe” Dowling, the chair of Brown’s Investment Office who has been instrumental to the growth of the University’s endowment since his arrival at Brown in 2013, will leave the University effective Jan. 12, 2021, to join the global investment firm Blackstone as global co-head of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. While departing Brown, Dowling will begin service on a volunteer basis as a member of the University’s Investment Committee, pending approval by the Corporation of Brown University, Brown’s governing body. Joe will contribute industry expertise in support of the committee’s role formulating the investment policies that mandate how the Brown University endowment is managed. Dowling has been serving in a part-time role at Brown since July 2020 as chair of the Investment Office and senior advisor to Brown President Christina H. Paxson.