Meet the MBA Admissions Team
Anna Ivey
Born and raised in Germany, Anna Ivey attended Phillips Academy Andover (Massachusetts) for high school, earned her B.A. in History from Columbia University in New York, spent her Junior year at Cambridge University in the U.K., and earned her law degree at the University of Chicago.
In law school, she served as an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review, worked as a research assistant to Larry Lessig with a focus on constitutional and cyberspace law, and took several classes at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Upon graduating from law school, she joined the Corporate Group at the Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella, working with clients such as Disney, AOL Time Warner, Williams-Sonoma, Hewlett-Packard, CSFB, and Mattel in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and public and private financings. She later joined the Entertainment Finance Group at Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, also in Los Angeles, where she worked on the financing of major motion pictures starring actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Kevin Spacey, and Renee Zellweger.
She next returned to the University of Chicago Law School, where at age 27 she was promoted to Dean of Admissions. She decided who got in... and who didn't. She read thousands of applications, visited colleges nationwide, educated tens of thousands of applicants about the admissions process, and conducted hundreds of admissions interviews. As part of a larger community of admissions professionals, she also met regularly with law school, business school, and college admissions officers from top schools.
Anna has been featured as an expert on CNN and Fox News Channel, and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Business Journal, Fortune.com, and Smart Money. She speaks at colleges and workplaces around the country and publishes ‘The Ivey Files,’ a blog for high school students and twenty-somethings navigating life, work, and school. Anna serves as a board member of AIGAC, the Association of International Graduate School Admissions Consultants (view our principles of good practice here).
Natively biilingual in German and English, Anna's language studies have also included French, Polish, Latin, Greek, Aramaic, and Mandarin Chinese.
Paul Buser
Originally hailing from the Midwest, Paul attended the University of Notre Dame for his undergraduate education. There he studied Finance, Accounting, and Public Policy while tirelessly cheering (in vain) for a Notre Dame football championship. After graduating summa cum laude in 2003, Paul worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago and Thailand, specializing in operations and strategy. He has also directed a non-profit consulting team in Cambodia, Kosovo, and the U.S. through the International Business Council. Paul is a CPA and holds a CFA charter.
Paul is currently pursuing a combined degree at Harvard Business School (MBA) and the Kennedy School of Government (MPA).
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer spent eleven years as a cello student at Juilliard before
attending Harvard College, where she played varsity lacrosse and double
majored in Music and Anthropology. She graduated magna cum laude and
next earned her M.Phil. in Musicology and Performance at Oxford
(Lincoln College). She currently attends Harvard Business School for
her MBA. She spent a year at a music conservatory in Freiburg, Germany,
and her solo and ensemble performances have taken her to France,
Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and South Korea. Most recently, she
has worked at JP Morgan in London as an investment banking summer
associate in the Technology, Media, and Telecom Group. Jennifer is
conversant in German and Korean.
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