Laurence C. Morse *80 ECO
Economist, Entrepreneur, Investor
Co-founder and Cheif Executive Officer, Fairview Capital Partners LLC
Larry Morse co-founded Fairview Capital Partners, a private equity investment management firm, in 1994. He is a past chairman of the board of the National Association of Investment Companies and a member of the boards of Webster Financial Corporation, Harris Associates Investment Trust (the Oakmark Mutual Funds) and the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former trustee of Princeton University as well as of the Institute of International Education and a former director of the Princeton University Investment Company. From July 2020 to June 2025 he served as chair of the board of trustees of Howard University. Morse graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Howard with a B.A. in economics, having spent his junior year at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics at Princeton and has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. He began his professional career as an economist at The Urban Institute in 1978.