Maxim Pinkovskiy

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Maxim Pinkovskiy, CC '08 is the valedictorian of the Columbia College class of 2008.

Maxim was born in Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Russia, where he lived until he was seven, when his family, stimulated by the rise of overt anti-Semitism, moved to Brooklyn - they are now naturalized US citizens.

Maxim is an economics-math major. Beginning in his sophomore year, he began taking graduate level courses, and by his junior year was taking almost exclusively doctoral level courses in economics and statistics. During his time at Columbia, he has won several prestigious essay contests, and he even did an internship at the New York Federal Reserve.

He has received an NSF graduate research fellowship and has also been selected as a Soros fellow. This fall, he's going to pursue a PhD at MIT. Traitor!

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