Ed Hyman is Chairman of Evercore ISI and Vice Chairman of Evercore. He heads Evercore ISI’s Economic Research Team. For the past 44 years Ed has been ranked by the Institutional Investor poll of investors for Economics, and ranked #1 for 39 years.

Prior to joining Evercore ISI, Ed was the Chairman and Founder of ISI Group, LLC. (broker dealer) and ISI Inc. (funds management). Prior to forming both of these companies in 1991, Ed was Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of C.J. Lawrence Inc., which he joined in 1972.

In the 1960s, when Ed was studying for his MBA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met a Harvard University economist who was using a computer to make economic forecasts. He went to work for the professor’s company, then joined Wall Street brokerage firm CJ Lawrence Inc. a few years later. Ed started ISI in 1991, and ISI built a following as he won Institutional Investor magazine’s poll for the best economist on Wall Street year after year.

He has previously served as a board member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Capital Trust (NYSE: CT), Said Holdings Limited, 10 Gracie Square, Saint David’s School, Collegiate School’s Finance Committee, and The Economic Club of New York.

Ed is a board member of China Institute and is a member of the Advisory Committee for The New York Public Library’s Financial Services Leadership Forum. He also serves on the Finance Committee of Bowdoin College and is a member of the Economic Club of New York.

He earned a BS in Engineering from the University of Texas in 1967 and received his MBA from MIT in 1969.