Head of ESG Research, AQR Capital Management, LLC
Lukasz Pomorski is a Managing Director and Head of ESG Research at AQR Capital Management. He is responsible for the planning and oversight of the firm’s responsible investment research efforts across all asset classes. Lukasz is a member of the PRI’s Hedge Fund Advisory Committee and he serves on Qontigo’s Sustainable Investment Advisory Board. Additionally, Lukasz is a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches a course on ESG Investing. Prior to AQR, Lukasz was an Assistant Director for Research at the Bank of Canada and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto. His research on ESG, alpha signals, and portfolio construction has been published in top academic and practitioner journals and won several best paper awards. Lukasz earned a B.A. and M.A. in economics at the Warsaw School of Economics, an M.A. in finance at Tilburg University, and a Ph.D. in finance at the University of Chicago. Polsky holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Kiev Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of Chicago.