Jeff Hooke
# Jeff Hooke

Jeff Hooke is an American author, investment banker and a senior finance lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.

## Education

Hooke holds MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from the University of Pennsylvania.

## Career

Hooke was a managing director at Focus, LLC, an investment bank serving middle market companies. He served as Vice President of Research at the Committee on Economic Development, a nonprofit think tank. Previously, Hooke operated his own consulting firm, was a director of Emerging Markets, a principal investment officer of the World Bank Group, an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and Schroder Wertheim, and a private investment associate with Metropolitan.

He has been quoted in numerous media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, Washington Post, Chicago Sun Times, Columbus Dispatch, Philadelphia Inquirer.

## Publications

Hooke is the author of five books: The Myth of Private Equity, An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments, Security Analysis on Wall Street (1998, 2nd edition 2013, John Wiley & Sons), M&A: A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal (1996, 2nd edition 2015, John Wiley & Sons), The Dinosaur Among Us: The World Bank and Its Path to Extinction,( Booksurge, 2007) and The Emerging Markets (2001, John Wiley & Sons). Barron's called Security Analysis on Wall Street “a welcome successor to Graham and Dodd’s Security Analysis,” the seminal work often quoted by Warren Buffett. As an expose of the PE business.

