Heiner Schulz is a lecturer at Stanford GSB and an expert on global financial markets. He was most recently an advisor to Artisan Partners, a global investment management firm. Prior to Artisan, he was a macro strategist at Point72 Asset Management, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He was a visiting researcher at the Bank of Korea and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and held fellowships from the Sloan Foundation and Hoover Institution. He received a PhD in political science from Stanford and degrees in international affairs and economics from Columbia and the University of Munich.