Michael J. Mauboussin (born February 1964) is managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advises clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision making. He is also an adjunct professor of finance at the Columbia Business School and chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Santa Fe Institute.
Mauboussin first joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst and later served as Managing Director and Chief U.S. Investment Strategist. He worked as a Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management from 2004 until leaving the firm on January 2, 2013, to rejoin Credit Suisse.
He is the former President of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York and has been "repeatedly named to Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team and the Wall Street Journal All-Star survey".
He has a B.A. in government from Georgetown University. He is a resident of Darien, Connecticut.
Mauboussin's writing has been featured in publications such as NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, and SmartMoney.