Alumni

Currently, Darden has alumni living and working in over 70 countries across the globe from El Salvador to Azerbaijan. Visit the Alumni Relations website to learn how you can keep contributing to Darden. Find out the latest alumni news from the alumni newsletter.

Students and Alumni interact at Darden's2008 International Alumni Gathering

Living abroad and want to reconnect with other Darden alumni? Interested in attending Darden and wish to talk with a graduate? Contact the alumni chapter in a country near you. International Alumni Chapters

The German Alumni Newsletter for November 2009 can be found here.

Read a newsletter from the September 2009 India Alumni Chapter here.

Some past events:

Cold Call Nights Tokyo- May 22, 2009

From Top Left: Sakaue Makoto (guest), Ryoichi Tokuda (Darden '03), Masa Otsuka (Darden '02), Kozue Iwaasa (guest), Lee Crocket (Darden '94), Suetsugu Azami (guest), Shin Furukawa (Darden '92) From Middle Left: Diana Chiu (UVA Law), Kazuko Imai (guest), Rie Fushiki (guest), Ichiro Suzuki (Darden '84), Tetsuo Shinobu (Darden '97), Tomomi Takagi (guest), Nina Yoshimura (guest), Hiromi Usuki (guest) From Bottom Left:  Dae-In Cha (Darden '06), Atsushi Matsumoto (Darden '03), Dong-Eun Kim (Darden '07), Yugo Koushima (guest)

To debrief about the discussion session led by Ichiro Suzuki, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Equity Investment Dept. of Nomura Asset Management, Ichiro-san covered the topic "Understanding Financial Market through History of Bubbles and Storms," informing us about the history, anatomy, and lessons to be learned from the market bubbles and storms.

Key learning of the session are as follows:

 1)  Bubbles take place across many asset classes (such as commodities, real estate, equities, fixed income securities) and tend to form when society experiences advancement in technology of communication, transportation, and major infrastructure.  (These advancements lead to strong economic growth, easy credit, and demand supply imbalances, which are recipes for bubbles.)

2) Due to individuals' and entities' abilities to tkae on leverage, and due to global development of communication and transportation technologies, the cycle of financial bubbles and storms will tend tto be shorther than the time span witnessed in past history.

3) Do not ever subscribe fully to the phrase: "This time it's different."  This time is NOT different, though no two cycles are ever the same. 

For more information about Darden's Alumni Relations, please contact Michael Woodfolk at (434) 243-8909.

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