Jeffrey Hooke

Jeff Hooke is an adjunct finance lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, having retired as a full-time lecturer. He works part-time as a consultant. Earlier, he was a managing director at Focus, LLC, an investment bank serving middle market companies, principally in mergers and acquisitions. Previously, he was a director of Emerging Markets Partnership (a $5 billion private equity fund), a principal investment officer of the World Bank Group, and an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and Schroder Wertheim. As an investment banker and private investment executive he has worked on many transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private equity and private debt, and international loan syndication.

Hooke has been quoted widely in the business media. He is the author of five books; the most recent book was published in October 2021: The Myth of Private Equity, An Inside Look at Wall Street’s Transformative Investments” (Columbia University Business School Press). He has co-authored several peer-reviewed academic papers in finance and has written many position papers for non-profit think tanks on a pro bono basis. He latest co-authored paper examined the performance of 200 seasoned private credit funds. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from the University of Pennsylvania.