Dmitri Mehlhorn

Dmitri Mehlhorn
Nationality American
Alma mater Stanford University
Harvard University
Yale Law School[1][2]
Occupation Author
Notable work "A Requiem for Blockbusting: Law, Economics, and Race-Based Real Estate Speculation"
Political party Democratic[3][4]

Dmitri Mehlhorn is an American author and businessman. He is a public policy writer and best known as the author of "A Requiem for Blockbusting: Law, Economics, and Race-Based Real Estate Speculation" for the Fordham Law Review. Mehlhorn is also a contributor to the American Enterprise Institute, The Daily Beast, the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law and The Atlantic.[5][6][7]

Mehlhorn started his career at McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, and later became the Managing Director at Gerson Lehrman Group. He was also the Chief of Staff at O'Melveny & Myers, an international law firm.[8] Mehlhorn is the former chief operating officer and President of Bloomberg BNA Legal.[9][10] In 2013, he became a Senior Advisor to Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles.[3] Since 2014, Mehlhorn has been a partner at Vidinovo, a venture capital network. He is a member of the boards for the technology companies, MedGenome, American Prison Data Systems and Aquicore. Mehlhorn has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, GenomeWeb and Venture Beat.[5][11][12][13]

Mehlhorn is also known as a political activist. In 2003, he was the co-founder of Hope Street Group, an economic opportunity nonprofit organization. In 2010, he co-founded StudentsFirst, an educational reform nonprofit organization, and is on the Board of Directors.[14][15][16]

References

  1. "Network Members: Dmitri Mehlhorn". Education Post. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  2. "Dmitri Mehlhorn Discusses Public Policy and the Private Sector". 30 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 Maddaus, Gene (15 July 2013). "Eric Garcetti Cuts Short East Coast Trip to Respond to Trayvon Martin Protests". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  4. "Why Progressives Shouldn't Support Public Unions–Mehlhorn replies to Rosenfeld". On Labor. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Dmitri Mehlhorn: Insight and Analysis". Entrepreneur Podcast Network. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  6. "A Requiem for Blockbusting: Law, Economics, and Race-Based Real Estate Speculation" 67 (3). Fordham Law Review. 1998.
  7. "Barbarians at the gate? How venture finance might evolve to support disruptive K–12 innovation". American Enterprise Institute. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  8. Meehan, William F.; Kilmer, Derek; O'Flanagan, Maisie (Spring 2004). "Investing in Society". Stanford Social Innovation Review. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  9. Kangarloo, Kasra (23 February 2015). "D.C. startup Aquicore adds advisers from HelloWallet, Opower and Bloomberg BNA". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  10. "Dmitri Mehlhorn to Join Bloomberg Law as Chief Operating Officer". Daily Finance. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  11. Basich, Zoran (4 June 2014). "The Daily Startup: For DNA Analysis, India Is 'Like a Thousand Icelands'". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  12. Sullivan, Mark (4 June 2014). "Can MedGenome use genetics to predict cancer? VCs bet $4M on it". Venture Beat. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  13. Thomas, Uduak Grace (6 June 2014). "MedGenome Raises $4M to Improve Informatics for Oncology, Grow Business in India, Elsewhere". GenomeWeb. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  14. "Opinion: In Missouri, a Fight to Override a Governor's Veto — and to Rescue Poor Kids from Failing Schools". 74million.org. September 14, 2015. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  15. Bello, Marisol; Gillum, Jack (11 May 2011). "Inquiry sought into D.C. test scores". USA Today. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  16. Resmovits, Joy (4 January 2013). "Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst Group Loses Top Democrats, Hires New President". Huffington Post. Retrieved 6 July 2015.

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