David Martin Darst

Biographical Information
"David is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Chairman of the firm’s Global Wealth Management Asset Allocation and Investment Policy Committee. He serves as Chief Investment Strategist of the Global Wealth Management Group, and was the founding President of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group. David is the author of five books, and writes extensively on asset allocation in the Morgan Stanley monthly publication Asset Allocation and Investment Strategy Digest and other publications, the predecessors of which he launched in 1997. David appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and in other media including Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, and The New York Times. David earned his BA degree in Economics from Yale University and his MBA from Harvard Business School, and he served as a visiting faculty member at both institutions for nine years. In April 2002, David was the moderator for Larry Harvey’s lecture “Viva Las Xmas” at Cooper Union in New York City."

Affiliations

 * Advisory Board, Black Rock Arts Foundation