{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{short description|American investment banker}} {{Infobox person | name = Daniel Alpert | image = Dan Alpert Headshot.jpg | alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania | years_active = 1982-present<ref name=insider>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/author/daniel-alpert|title=Daniel Alpert|work=Business Insider}}</ref> | employer = Westwood Capital | known_for = U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index }}

'''Daniel Alpert''' is an American investment banker, adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, commentator, and author.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-16/coronavirus-employers-sick-leave|title=Column: Some employers are doing the right thing in the coronavirus crisis. Some aren't|work=Los Angeles Times |first=Michael |last=Hiltzik |date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> He is a co-creator of the United States Private Sector Job Quality Index, an economic metric that measures of higher wage versus lower wage private sector jobs, and the author of ''The Age of Oversupply: Confronting the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-jobs-are-getting-worse-according-to-a-new-economic-measure/|title=American jobs are getting worse, new economic index shows|work=CBS News}}</ref> Alpert is a founding partner of Westwood Capital LLC, an investment firm based in New York, and an adviser to the Coalition for a Prosperous America.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90468842/new-analysis-income-growth-declines-for-poor-americans-stalls-under-trump|title=News analysis: Income growth declines for poor Americans under Trump|first=Jessica|last=Goodheart|date=February 27, 2020|website=Fast Company}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/business/dealbook/bitcoin-price-crash.html|title=DealBook Briefing: Blue Apron's Co-Founder Steps Down as C.E.O. (Published 2017)|newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 30, 2017}}</ref> Alpert is a member of the World Economic Roundtable.<ref>{{cite web |title=Institute for New Economic Thinking: Daniel Alpert |url=https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/dalpert |publisher=Institute for New Economic Thinking |access-date=January 4, 2021 }}</ref>

== Biography == Alpert received a Bachelor of Arts degree in public policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and started working in commercial real estate banking and finance in 1982.<ref name=insider/> He was a banker and partner at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., before founding a New York-based investment firm, Westwood Capital, in 1995.<ref name="westwood-people">{{cite web |publisher=Westwood Capital |url=http://www.westwoodcapital.com/ourpeople/daniel-alpert/ |title=Our People: Dan Alpert |website=westwoodcapital.com |accessdate=January 4, 2021}}</ref> During that time, Alpert worked on international merchant banking, bankruptcy-related restructuring transactions, commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) and mortgage REITs.<ref name=cornell/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB89648293325275500|title=They're Ba-a-a-ck, Sort Of: Mortgage REITs|work=Wall Street Journal}}</ref>

In 2010, Alpert was a featured commentator on the story of the 2008 financial crisis in the documentary film ''Inside Job''. In January 2012, he was announced as a fellow of The Century Foundation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/think-tanked/post/the-century-foundation-to-announce-new-fellows/2012/01/18/gIQAH7Gv7P_blog.html|title=The Century Foundation to announce new fellows|first=Allen|last=McDuffee|date=January 18, 2012 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

In February 2018, Cornell Law School announced that Alpert would be a senior fellow in financial macroeconomics and an adjunct professor of law within the Clarke Program.<ref name=cornell>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/spotlights/daniel-alpert-joins-cornell-law.cfm|title=Daniel Alpert Joins Cornell Law School as Senior Fellow in Financial Macroeconomics|website=www.lawschool.cornell.edu |accessdate=January 4, 2021}}</ref> He was also named to the advisory board of the Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law and Economics (CRADLE).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://128.253.53.20/cradle|title=Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE)|work=Cornell University}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Authorship== Following the 2008 financial crisis, Alpert became a cited author on economic policy and the credit bubble. He started writing for ''Business Insider'' in 2011.<ref name=insider/> That same year, Alpert conceived of, and co-authored along with Nouriel Roubini, New York University Professor of Economics, and Robert Hockett, a Professor of Financial Law at Cornell University, a widely cited and debated white paper on behalf of the New America Foundation entitled ''The Way Forward'' that has been credited on most sides of the macroeconomic debate with providing a clear and concise explanation of the issues that led to the 2008 financial crisis.<ref name=forbesna /><ref>{{cite news | last = Nocera | first = Joe | title = This Time, It Really Is Different | newspaper = The New York Times | date = October 10, 2011| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/opinion/this-time-it-really-is-different.html }}</ref> In 2013, he released ''The Age of Oversupply: Confronting the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy'' on the effect of macroeconomic imbalances on advanced economies.<ref name=forbesna>{{cite news | last = Lenzner | first = Robert | title = A $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Creates 27 Million Jobs In 5 Years | newspaper = Forbes | date = October 23, 2011| url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/10/23/the-u-s-wont-be-able-to-grow-again-until-2016-18/ }}</ref>

In 2016, he published the white paper ''GLUT: The U.S. Economy and the American Worker in the Age of Oversupply'' on the connection between global imbalances and United States employment, and co-authored ''The Debt Goes On: A Post-Crisis 'Progress' Report'' at Cornell. Alpert was a co-author of the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/coronavirus-has-infected-the-economy-hitting-hourly-workers-and-small-business-owners-the-hardest.html|title=Coronavirus has infected the economy, hitting hourly workers and small business owners the hardest|work=Penn Live|date=March 30, 2020 }}</ref>

==Selected publications== *{{cite journal | last1 = Alpert | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Roubini | first2 = Nouriel | last3 = Hockett | first3 = Robert C. | date = October 10, 2011 | title = The Way Forward | url = http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_way_forward | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | doi = | access-date = | archive-date = July 11, 2012 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120711200159/http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_way_forward | url-status = dead }} *{{cite book | last = Alpert | first = Daniel | title = The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy | publisher = Penguin Portfolio |date=September 2013 | isbn = 978-1591845966 }} *{{cite journal | last = Alpert | first = Daniel | date = April 4, 2016 | title = GLUT: The U.S. Economy and the American Worker in the Age of Oversupply | url = https://www.thirdway.org/report/glut-the-u-s-economy-and-the-american-worker-in-the-age-of-oversupply | journal = Third Way | volume = | issue = | pages = | doi = | access-date = }} *{{cite journal | last1 = Alpert | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Hockett | first2 = Robert C. | date = September 13, 2016 | title = The Debt Goes On: A Post-Crisis 'Progress' Report | url = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2837929 | journal = Cornell Legal Studies | volume = | issue = | pages = 32 | doi = | ssrn = 2837929 | access-date = }} *{{cite journal | last1 = Alpert | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Ferry | first2 = Jeff | last3 = Hockett | first3 = Robert C. | last4 = Khaleghiyan | first4 = Amir | date = April 8, 2020 | title = The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index | url = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566575 | journal = Cornell Legal Studies | volume = | issue = | pages = 55 | doi = | ssrn = 3566575 | access-date = }}

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