Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy has a BA from Oxford and a PhD from the University of Virginia (UVA), both in English, which he taught at UVA and Bucknell University, specializing in nineteenth-century British poetry.

Kennedy retired as director of research for Cambridge Associates, a global investment advisory firm. He chairs the investment advisory committee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and serves on the investment committee of Oxford University. He is the past Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the Academy of American Poets and a member of its Emeritus Circle.