Dan Lefkovitz was Director of Business & Operations, Pan European Research Team for Morningstar, Europe and is Content Strategist for Morningstar’s Indexes Group. He coordinated Morningstar’s pan-European fund analysis effort from February 2008. Previously, he served as a senior mutual fund analyst for Morningstar, Inc in Chicago.

He was Morningstar’s lead analyst for Fidelity Investments and edited the monthly online newsletter, Morningstar Fidelity Fund Family Report since 2006. He has made media appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and the Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining Morningstar in 2004, Dan served as the Director of Country Analysis for Marvin Zonis and Associates, the Chicago-based country risk analysis firm.

Dan has co-authored Risk Rules: How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy (2011) and The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Politics in a Crisis-Driven World (2003). Lefkovitz holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.