Samantha Kappagoda was Appointed to the Business Board of the Governing Council at the University of Toronto

Numerati^® Partners is pleased to announce that Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder, has been appointed to the Business Board of the Governing Council at the University of Toronto effective July 1, 2024.

The University of Toronto is a public research institution founded in 1827, currently ranked first among Canadian universities, and top five among public universities in North America. The university has annual revenue of C$4 billion, approximately 70,000 students enrolled across three campuses in the greater Toronto area, and over 700 undergraduate and 200 masters and doctoral graduate programs. The Business Board is one of three boards of the Governing Council. Its mandate includes resource allocation, oversight of policy and major commercial transactions for the University, as well as advancement, public and community relations, and alumni affairs.

Samantha Kappagoda currently serves as an Independent Director / Trustee, Nominating Committee Chair and Audit Committee Member of Credit Suisse Funds, which are comprised of two closed-end funds (NYSE: DHY and CIK) and six open-end funds investing in commodity, quantitative and high yield and credit strategies. She is also Chief Data Scientist and Co-Managing Member of Numerati Partners LLC, and Visiting Scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU, advising research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute.

Samantha earned an M.A. in Economics with concentrations in Industrial Organization and Monetary Economics from the University of Toronto, where she was a Massey College Junior Fellow and awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She is an active member of the University of Toronto alumni network and serves on the Lester B. Pearson Scholarship Committee.