Katherine P. Waldock

Kate Waldock is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard Law School. She researches contracts, bankruptcy, corporate finance, law and economics, and financial intermediation. 

Previously, Kate was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She was also an associate in the Restructuring and Finance Group at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Kate holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College.

Kate has written op-eds for the New York Times and has been featured as a guest on Planet Money and the Indicator by NPR. She formerly co-hosted Beyond Unprecedented, a podcast produced by Columbia Law School, and Capitalisn’t, a podcast produced by the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.