Andrea is a Principal on AQR’s Global Stock Selection team, focusing on research and portfolio management of the Firm’s Long/Short and Long-Only equity strategies. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He has published in top academic journals and won several awards for his research, including the Smith Breeden Award, the Fama-DFA award, the BGI best paper award, several Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards, and the PanAgora Crowell Memorial Prize. Prior to AQR in 2008, Andrea was an associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also served as a consultant for DKR Capital Partners and J.P. Morgan Securities and on the board of directors of the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago. He earned a B.S. in economics from the University of Roma Tre, an M.S. in economics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

Michele Aghassi is a Principal at AQR Capital Management, where she serves as a portfolio manager for the firm's equity strategies. Throughout her tenure at AQR, she has been a leader in research and strategy development, contributing to the advancement of the stock selection investment process. She played a key role in launching the firm’s emerging equities strategy in 2008 and developed the proprietary robust optimization technology that AQR uses to build portfolios. In addition to her responsibilities at AQR, she serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Portfolio Management. Earlier in her career, Michele worked as a quantitative analyst in the proprietary equities department of D.E. Shaw & Co. Michele graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a B.Sc. in applied mathematics and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an MIT Presidential Graduate Fellow.

Ronen Israel, M.A., is a Principal of AQR Capital Management. Mr. Israel joined AQR Capital Management in 1999, is the Co-Head of Portfolio Management, Research, Risk and Trading and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining AQR, Ronen was a Senior Analyst at Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc., a quantitative investment management firm, specializing in currencies and global macro strategies, with $2.5 billion under management. Before that, he worked as a management consultant, specializing in building out financial systems for financial services firms. Ronen received an MA in Mathematics, specializing in mathematical finance, from Columbia University, a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BAS in Biomedical Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nielsen is a Principal of AQR Capital Management. Mr. Nielsen joined AQR in 2000 and currently serves as the co-head of portfolio management, research, risk and trading. He earned a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in economics from the University of Copenhagen. Prior to joining the Adviser in 2000, he was an Analyst in the Quantitative Research Group of Danske Invest.