David Lerer

Consultant

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Winthrop Highlights

• Consultant, 2022-Present

Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York, Ph. D. (in progress), History; M. Phil., History; M.A., History
• Tufts University, B.A., History and Economics

About David

David Lerer is a historian of modern Europe and the United States, with particular interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic, financial, and social history. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, he worked in policy communications for a family foundation and as project manager for a medical translations company. His dissertation examines efforts by savings bankers, co-operative movements, trade unions, and other corporate actors to establish international financial institutions in the first half of the twentieth century. He currently teaches Contemporary Civilization, a seminar in political and social theory in Columbia University’s Core Curriculum, and has previously taught courses in modern European and American history.