Michael Lustig retired after a 25-year career on Wall Street, and now devotes the majority of his time and energies toward non-profit & impact-related enterprises.
Prior to retiring, Michael spent most of his career at the asset management firm BlackRock, where he was Managing Director overseeing Structured Mortgage & Derivative Products trading and acted as advisor/portfolio manager for the Federal Reserve’s Global Financial Crisis-related managed assets. Michael sits on a variety of nonprofit Boards including JLens Investor Network [ADL], the Baron de Hirsch Fund, Jewish Funders Network (JFN), JCRC-NY, AJC-NY, Columbia/Barnard Hillel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, American Friends of Ogen, and the Israeli Forum for Impact Economy (IFIE). He is Adjunct Professor of Finance at NYU | Stern School of Business, teaches Impact Finance at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, and is a Lecturer at several other institutions, teaching fulltime elective courses for MBAs in Fixed Income, Capital Markets, and Impact Finance. Michael has an Erdős number of 4.
Michael serves on the Boards of jiritsu.network, Gigawatt Global, and Nature Growth (an AgriTech Incubator in Sderot, Israel), as well as maintaining several other corporate Advisory & Board positions through his Impact and Technology-focused investments. He has curated several exhibits at The Society of Illustrators and is a Licensed NYC Sightseeing Guide. Michael is the author of JFN’s Greenbook, A Guide to Jewish Impact Investing.
Michael lives in Manhattan with his wife Rachel, and their three wonderful children, two of whom recently got married!