Ryan Malitz

Co-President

Ryan is currently pursuing an Economics and Public Policy double major at the University of Chicago. He joined UCMI in January 2011, and spent last year as a consultant and then an investment associate. After actively participating in both sides of UCMI’s operations, Ryan was selected to join UCMI’s Executive Committee as the Managing Director of Consulting. He managed UCMI’s consulting operations, trained consulting associates, contacted clients, and secured projects with socially-minded organizations, both domestically and internationally. Once Evanna took her leave from UCMI, Ryan stepped up to lead the organization as Co-President.

As Co-President, Ryan now manages UCMI as a whole and works to ensure that it fulfills its mission by making meaningful investments, completing socially-impactful consulting projects, and developing the skills of UCMI’s talented associates. Ryan strongly believes that UCMI’s work is an investment in the future. By empowering talented young students to take on real consulting and investment projects during their time as an undergraduate, he aims to get UCMI’s associates acclimated to the idea that they have the power and skills to make a difference in the world. With its high standards for professional deliverables and quality due diligence, UCMI also hones its associates’ skills and gives them the tools to confidently approach tomorrow’s problems.

Ryan first became interested in microfinance after he read Muhammad Yunus’ book Banker to the Poor. As an Economics major, the book and microfinance offered Ryan a spark of hope in the “dismal science” that he had not encountered in his courses. Like a surprising number of University of Chicago students, Ryan enrolled in the university with the ambition of “helping people” in some way, and to him microfinance seemed to be the perfect synthesis of economics and making the world a better place.

In addition to his involvement in UCMI, Ryan is also a research assistant for Professor John List at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. He plans on continuing his studies in economics at the graduate level.

In his spare time, Ryan is passionate about attending as many concerts as he can and anything pertaining to George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. He is also an active fencer.

Email him at: rymalitz@uchicago.edu