Oliver Chen is a Managing Director and senior equity research stock analyst covering retail and luxury goods at TD Cowen. He is also a Professor of Marketing at Columbia Business School, where he teaches the course New Frontiers in Retailing. 
 
Mr. Chen’s deep understanding of the consumer and his ability to forecast the latest trends and technological changes that will impact the retail space has set him apart from peers. His broad coverage and circumspect view make him the thought partner of retail and brand leaders and has led to numerous industry awards and recognition on the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team. Mr. Chen was also named on the National Retail Federation Foundation’s 2019 List of People Shaping Retail’s Future, recognized as an Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business by the Asian American Business Development Center in 2023, and received the Wharton School’s Jay H. Baker Retail Award for impact in retailing.
 
Prior to joining Cowen in 2014, he spent seven years at Citigroup covering a broad spectrum of the U.S. consumer retail landscape. Earlier, he worked in the investment research division at UBS, in the global mergers and acquisitions and strategic planning group at PepsiCo International, and in JPMorgan’s consumer products and retail mergers and acquisitions group.
 
Mr. Chen serves as a member of the PhD retail research review committee for the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center. His passion for the sector began at the age of 12 when he started working with his parents at their retail business in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
 
Mr. Chen holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Georgetown University, a master of business administration from the Wharton School, and is a CFA charterholder.