Ziad Sarkis is the Director of Financial Research at the Wharton School’s Harris Alternative Investments Program, which is the think tank and hub for research on allocators, private capital funds, and hedge funds at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ziad specializes in researching and building relationships with allocators and private capital funds and represents the University of Pennsylvania at alternative investments conferences globally where he a frequent speaker and panelist.

Ziad teaches executive education classes on alternative investments at Wharton attended by 50-70 C-level executives and investment professionals. He develops technical content for such investment classes and authors case studies on private equity.

He also sits on advisory boards and provides consulting services on investment and fundraising affairs to companies, funds, allocators, and governments.

Prior to his current role, Ziad worked for Zouk Capital, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Deloitte in the U.S. and EMEA regions, where he advised private equity funds, family offices, and corporate groups on M&A deals and capital deployment.

Ziad is a U.S. certified public accountant and holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Arizona State University. He is fluent in Arabic, French, and English.