Carson Block | |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1977 |
Alma Mater: | University of Southern California Chicago-Kent College of Law |
Occupation: | Investor |
Known For: | founder of Muddy Waters Research |
Founder, CEO, & CIO of Muddy Waters Capital LLC |
Carson Block is an American investor and the founder of Muddy Waters Research.[1] He is known for documenting and alleging fraudulent accounting practices in publicly traded Chinese companies.[2]
Block grew up in Summit, New Jersey. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California and holds a J.D. degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law.[3]
Block went to work with his father, a period he describes as “very embittering” as he was “lied to by a parade of management” of internet companies. He quit equity analysis for law school, later moving to Shanghai before leaving law and setting up a self-storage business in 2007.[4]
In 2011, Block was ranked as a 50 Most Influential Thinker by Bloomberg Markets.[5]
In September 2017, Block initiated a private lawsuit against Equifax, accusing the latter of neglecting to safeguard his personally identifiable information.[6] He appears in the documentary The China Hustle, outlining his research into securities fraud of Chinese companies through Muddy Waters.[7] In early 2018, he was also forced to settle a case with St. Jude Medical Inc. in order to avoid a lawsuit.[8]