Class Agent Profile: Eric Taylor III '04

Eric Taylor filled us in on what he has been up to since he left the Hill:

"I graduated from Harvard this past year after writing a thesis entitled Popular Inadequacy: A Critique of Capitalist Crisis Theory. In it I focused on how some these days (including some of our foremost in finance) fail to truly understand the meaning of a ‘crisis’, and proposed an alternative lens and a number of metrics through which one might understand and view capitalist crisis.

After graduation I took a trip around the world for a month. I started in Europe, covering London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Ibiza. After Ibiza, prepared with Malaria pills and mosquito repellent I flew to Bangkok, Thailand and commenced a land trip with 5 of my best friends from school down the Thai-Malay Peninsula, stopping in beautiful places with different names like ‘Koh Phi-Phi’. After Thailand, we moved on to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where we stayed a few days and relaxed in what was truly an amazing city. We took an overnight train to Singapore, where we stayed for another few days, after which we all flew home to get prepared for work.

At the moment I’m working at Goldman Sachs in their Distressed Investing group. We invest principally across the capital structure using fundamental analysis. I really love the work, though its quite different in the real world."