David Kane

Institute Fellow, IQSS

David Kane is the CEO of Kane Capital Management, a quantitative, market-neutral, global equity hedge fund. He has a Ph.D. in Political Economy from Harvard University and a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Williams College. David served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps from 1988 to 1991. He was a lecturer in Government at Harvard in the fall of 2002. David's research interests involve applied empirical finance using open source tools, especially R, the use of which he introduced to the Government Department. David is a member of the Eliot House Senior Common Room.