Northwestern University hires Amy Falls as chief investment officer for endowment
Amy Falls (Bloomberg)—Northwestern University hired Amy Falls as chief investment officer of its endowment, one of the biggest in the U.S. with a $12.2 billion portfolio at year-end. Falls, 56, will become the first woman to hold the post when she joins this spring, the Evanston school said Friday in a statement. “We have great confidence in Amy’s ability to build the financial strength we need to invest further in our academic community and to carry out every aspect of our mission at a truly world-class level,” Northwestern President Morton Schapiro said in the statement. The endowme...