Michael Mauboussin joined Legg Mason Capital Managment as chief investment strategist in March 2004. Prior to joining Legg Mason, Michael was a managing director and chief U.S. investment strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston. Michael joined CSFB in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst. He is a former president of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor's ^TM All-America Research Team and the Wall Street Journal All-Star survey in the food industry group.

Michael co-authored "Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns," published by Harvard Business School Press. He has also been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993. BusinessWeek's Guide to the Best Business Schools (2001) highlighted Michael as one of the school's "Outstanding Faculty," a distinction received by only seven professors. In 2004, SmartMoney magazine named Michael as one of its Power 30, a list of "the most influential people on Wall Street."

Michael is on the Board of Trustees at the Santa Fe Institute, a leading center for multi-disciplinary research in complex systems theory. He received a B.A. in government from Georgetown University.