Harvey Sawikin

Harvey Sawikin is co-founder and co-manager of Firebird, the first fund family dedicated to the stock markets of the former Soviet Union. Before Firebird, he was a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a lawyer at the firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Harvey is a graduate of Columbia University (Magna Cum Laude) and Harvard Law School (Cum Laude), where he was an editor of the Law Review. He serves on the Visiting Committees of both the Modern and Contemporary Art and Photographs Departments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and co-chairs the Met's Stieglitz Society. Harvey is also the author of a novel, Rick Green, Esquire (Simon & Schuster 1995), and writes the Substack The Falling Knife. He lives in Manhattan and Sagaponack with his wife Andrea Krantz, and they have two adult sons.