Professor of Finance​

Biography

​Sabrina T. Howell

Sabrina Howell is an Associate Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, among other affiliations. Professor Howell’s research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, private equity, innovation, fintech, and China. A theme across her work is relevance to policymakers and practitioners. Howell received her B.A. from Yale University in 2008 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2015. In between, she worked as an energy consultant for Charles River Associates in Houston, and on energy security policy for Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) in Washington DC. She is a 2023 Poets & Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor, the recipient of the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award at Copenhagen Business School, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship, and the AQR Asset Management Institute Young Researcher Award. Howell lives with her husband, Rob Berschinski, and her children Jack (born 2018) and Hannah (born 2023).