Alan
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Alan Cordova wrote for National Public Radio’s “Planet Money” program, which explains the intricacies of the financial crisis to ordinary Americans in plain English. He received a BA in Political Science and Astronomy from Williams College in 2006 and a MBA with concentrations in Finance and Management at Columbia Business School in 2008. His publications include policy analysis for a Washington, DC think tank, reporting in Mexico City for Newsweek International, a sociological study of the Muslim community of Granada, Spain and a thesis on democracy promotion programs in Central Asia. He served as president of the community service council and member of the honor society at Williams and as a cluster leader, peer advisor and tutor at Columbia. Since 2006, he has provided strategy consulting to clients ranging from new media entrepreneurs to a frontier market venture capital firm. An avid distance runner, backpacker and trumpeter, he is currently a member of Net Impact, the National Society of Hispanic MBAs and the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York. |
| Interests | 18000' mountains, distance running, backpacking, alpine skiing, extreme sledding, jazz trumpet, Ladino, post-Soviet mountain republics, cosmology, fresh-brewed coffee |
| Favorite movies | Memento, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Amores Perros, Blade Runner, The Searchers, The Matrix, The Departed, Goldfinger, A Beautiful Mind, There Will Be Blood, Letters from Iwo Jima, Pulp Fiction, Bridge On The River Kwai, Citizen Kane |
| Favorite music | Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Clifford Brown, Billy Strayhorn, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Paco de Lucía, Carlos Montoya, Ibrahim Ferrer, Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Rafael Méndez, Jazz Police |
| Favorite books | Don Quijote, The Brothers Karamazov, Labyrinths, Three Cups of Tea, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Tupelo: The Evolution of a Community, Survival of the Fitter, Hyperspace, Imagined Communities, To Kill A Mockingbird |