Nov 2, 2004 -- Renowned economist Henry Kaufman, who Business Week magazine has called “one of the greatest financial thinkers of our time,” paid a visit, and a compliment, to Sy Syms School of Business on the Wilf Campus recently. "The one thing you will take out of Yeshiva University is that you will have a broad responsibility for whatever you do, particularly in finance," Dr. Kaufman told Syms students, alluding to YU's dual curriculum of Jewish and secular studies. Dr. Kaufman's visit began with a lunch with Charles Snow, dean of Sy Syms School of Business; Daniel Forman, vice president of development; Peter Sperling, visiting assistant professor of finance; and Joseph Tovey, adjunct assistant professor of finance. Later Dr. Kaufman met privately with President Richard Joel. Dr. Kaufman then met with six Syms students and seven Syms faculty members in Dean Snow's office before addressing about 200 Syms students in Weissberg Commons. Dean Snow said Dr. Kaufman's visit to Sy Syms School of Business was another reflection of the esteem in which the school is held by preeminent business leaders. The school annually attracts some of the most successful and well-known executives to speak at its Ira and Doris Kukin Entrepreneurial Lecture Series. And Dr. Kaufman's visit comes on the heels of SSSB playing host to the Northeast Business and Economic Association (NBEA) annual conference, an event in which more than 250 scholars participated. Henry Kaufman is President of the economic and financial consulting firm Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., which he founded in 1988 after a 26 year career with Salomon Brothers. Dr. Kaufman fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and ever since has displayed a strong commitment to supporting education, especially when it is jeopardized by repressive regimes. He endowed Henry Kaufman Chair in Financial History at Sy Syms School of Business. He also provided the endowment for the Sidney Homer Directorship and Charles Simon Chair as well as the Henry Kaufman Chair in the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at NYU Stern. Named chairs have also been endowed by Dr. Kaufman at Columbia Business School and at Tel-Aviv University as well as a named Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations.