David M. Schizer

David M. Schizer is a twenty-five-year veteran of the nonprofit world. He became the

youngest dean in Columbia Law School’s history at age thirty-five and also served as the

CEO of JDC, a humanitarian organization active in seventy countries with a $365 million

annual budget. Schizer has served on the board of a number of nonprofits and for-profit

companies, including 92NY, the Ramaz School, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Feil

Properties, SEACOR Holdings, and more.

A member of the Columbia Law School faculty since 1998, Schizer is a leading

scholar of nonprofits, tax, energy, and business law, as well as an award-winning

teacher. He has taught at Yale, Harvard, Hebrew University, University of Tokyo, and

other major universities around the world. Schizer also clerked for US Supreme Court

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski.

Schizer has a BA, MA, and JD from Yale. He lives in New York City with his wife

and three children.