Biography

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
• Adjunct Professor of Law at Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University
• Website: Booth Profile, Northwestern Profile, LinkedIn Profile

Professional Roles

• Senior Vice President at Champlain Insurance Group
• Board of Directors (National) at Venture For America
• Affiliated Scholar at the Cambridge Centre for International Research
• Investor-Advisor at Canopy Aerospace and KYRAL Health
• Advisor at Maiden Labs
• Founder and Initial CEO (now Board of Directors) at Haystack

Experience

Professor Karl Muth leads initiatives in entrepreneurship and law as an adjunct assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and as an adjunct professor of law at the Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University.

He serves as Senior Vice President at Champlain Insurance Group and holds positions on various boards, including Venture For America and Haystack. He is also an affiliated scholar at the Cambridge Centre for International Research and an investor-advisor for companies like Canopy Aerospace and KYRAL Health. 

Professor Muth’s interests span across entrepreneurship, law, insurance, and investment. He has a robust background in advisory roles, assisting startups and established companies in strategic growth and development. His expertise bridges academic theory and real-world application, making significant contributions to the fields of business and law.

He is an expert in the regulation of securities markets and tradeable obligations, his policy research and recommendations have been cited by the Secretary of the SEC, a Commissioner of the SEC, and in many Proposed Rules and Final Rules. Muth has presented research to the SEC, the Comptroller of the Currency, officials at the Treasury Department and HM Treasury (UK), analysts from the US and UK intelligence communities, senior officers of multilateral anti-piracy and anti-money-laundering (AML) task forces, and members of Congress; he was the primary defense expert witness in a case involving a billion-dollar alleged corporate financing fraud.

His research appears in a wide range of journals, including The Harvard Africa Policy Journal, The Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, The Harvard Kennedy School Review and The Journal of Private Equity, as well as in the Oxford Handbook (Oxford Press) on policy administration and in Controversies in Globalization (CQ Press 2d Ed.), an oft-assigned undergraduate-level text on macro-scale policy questions. Most recently, he presented his research on racial discrimination in the Chicago housing market at the 2023 American Economic Association annual conference and submitted testimony on several key 2023 SEC rules matters.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Concentration in Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Juris Doctor (J.D.), University of Illinois System

Undergraduate-Level Legal Studies, Internationaal Recht, University of the Netherlands Antilles

Keywords:

Entrepreneurship, Investment, Advisor, Law, Business, Technology