Ivan Samstein

Chief Financial Officer of the University and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of UChicago Medicine 

Edward H. Levi Hall, Suite 501
5801 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-795-0812
isamstein@uchicago.edu

Executive Assistant:
Jacqueline Mendoza
773.702.6067
jmendoza2@uchicago.edu

Ivan Samstein's experience in financial management spans a broad array of areas including healthcare, higher education, government finance and capital markets.  He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of the University, as well as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for University of Chicago Medicine, a roughly $4 billion health care system. In his role as CFO for the University, Samstein works closely with the University president, provost, Board of Trustees, deans and officers to ensure that the financial services, operations and strategy supported the academic mission and priorities of the organization. In addition to being responsible for all aspects of financial services, internal audit, and risk management at the University, he also oversees the University’s knowledge and optimization organization.

Before joining the University of Chicago, he served as CFO for Cook County from 2012 to 2017, where he had oversight of eight departments and advised Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on all fiscal-policy matters. Prior to that experience, Samstein was an investment banker covering municipal fixed-income markets in New York and Chicago at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and predecessor organizations and a municipal bond-rating analyst at Moody’s Investors Service.

Samstein earned a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s from Hunter College, City University of New York. In addition, he is an Afghanistan veteran of the United States Army.