Mara Baumgarten Force
- Professor of Practice
- Director of the Schwartz Family Center for Experiential Business Learning
- Seymour S. Goodman Professor of Business Administration
| Office Address | 260C |
|---|---|
| Phone | 504-865-5477 |
| mara@tulane.edu |
Biography
Mara Baumgarten Force is the Director of the Schwartz Family Center for Experiential Business Learning and the Seymour S. Goodman Professor of Business Administration at the AB Freeman School of Tulane University in New Orleans. Mara began teaching at Tulane as an Adjunct in 2017. Loving the experience, Mara was honored to join the faculty as a Professor of Practice in finance. She teaches/has taught The Aaron Selber Jr. Course on Hedge Funds, Financial Management, Investment in Equities, Service Learning in Financial Literacy, and Business Literacy. Additionally, she serves a member of the City of New Orleans Revenue Estimating Committee.
Before joining the Freeman School in 2017, Force served as a managing director and head of Private Client Trust at JPMorgan. During her 18 years with the firm, she held a variety of positions in the Asset Management and Investment Banking lines of business. Her responsibilities ranged from highly technical- including investing the bank’s capital in hedge funds and structuring equity derivatives, to managerial- including overseeing 150 Private Client Trust officers servicing more than 13,000 clients.
In the community, Mara currently serves on the boards and Executive Committees of Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, Jewish Endowment Foundation, ADL, and Touro Infirmary. Additionally, she was honored to complete the Zin Fellows program at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in 2015. She was a Young Leadership Fellow at the National Committee on U.S./China Relations.
