Jim Chanos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Chanos & Company (f.k.a. Kynikos Associates).  As the world’s oldest exclusive short selling investment firm, Chanos & Company provides investment advisory services for domestic and offshore clients. Mr. Chanos launched Kynikos Associates in 1985 to implement investment strategies he had uncovered while beginning his Wall Street career as a financial analyst with Paine Webber, Gilford Securities, and Deutsche Bank.  Throughout his investment career, Mr. Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; among them, Baldwin-United, Commodore International, First Executive, Integrated Resources, Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Conseco, Tyco International, WorldCom, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Wirecard. His celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron’s as “the market call of the decade, if not the past fifty years.”  The media has noted his prescience in alerting finance ministers and others about the global financial crisis well before it occurred.  His views on financial market fraud, capital markets regulation and the Chinese financial system, among other topics, are regularly covered by news organizations worldwide. Mr. Chanos has testified before Congress and provided comments to regulations proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mr. Chanos lives in Bucks County, PA, and has four adult children.  He is currently a Lecturer in Finance at both the Yale School of Management and the University of Wisconsin School of Business, where he teaches a popular class on the history of financial fraud. Mr. Chanos received his BA in economics and political science in 1980 from Yale University.