CAIA Curriculum Committee

A global committee of investment practitioners with deep expertise in alternative investments, informing each annual curriculum update to reflect what truly matters.

Markets move fast. Curriculum should move deliberately.

Investment trends don’t arrive neatly once a year. They emerge, overlap, and evolve continuously.

The CAIA Global Curriculum Committee exists to track those shifts as they happen, so when the CAIA curriculum is updated annually, it reflects a full year of informed, deliberate insight.

Not reactive changes. Well-vetted ones.


Continuous review. Intentional updates.

The Committee meets quarterly to assess how the investment landscape is evolving and to support the ongoing development of the CAIA curriculum.

Their role is to:

  • Reviewing the full Candidate Body of Knowledge over a three-year cycle
  • Identifying emerging trends, skills, and knowledge areas to ensure globally relevant coverage
  • Providing feedback on proposed curriculum changes and enhancements

These insights are then incorporated into the annual curriculum update cycle, ensuring changes are both timely and thoughtfully integrated.


Committee Composition

The Committee includes representation from across all global regions. Each will serve a three-year term, contributing practitioner-level insight from global markets to challenge, refine, and strengthen what the industry learns next.

Gaëlle Allet, CAIA, CFA
Senior Product Specialist, Private Markets
La Banque Postale Asset Management

Joe Cullen, CAIA, CFA, CRM
Chief Investment Officer
Penn State

Christoph Junge, CAIA
Managing Director, Head of Fund Investments
EIFO – The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark

Asuka Maeda, CAIA, CFA
Head of Portfolio Solutions at Investments
Willis Towers Watson

Mark Robillard, CAIA, CFA, FRM
Vice President, Reach Analyst, Alternatives
Fidelity Investments

Theodore Shou, CAIA, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Yiyi Capital Limited

Kelsey Syvrud, Ph.D.
Director, Alternative Investments and Wealth Management
Herbert Wertheim College of Business

Annual Curriculum Updates

The CAIA curriculum is updated annually to reflect evolving market practices and industry expert insight.

Review the latest updates in Inside the 2026 CAIA Curriculum