OPPENHEIMER & COMPANY, INC.
Paul Kirby

An economics major who graduated from Pennsylvania State University in State College and also spent a semester abroad at Seville University in Spain, Paul Kirby was a Dean’s List student who worked in the past at Person to Person Marketing and Mercury Masonry. Paul is nearly fluent in Spanish, he belonged to Habitat for Humanity in Alabama, and he did fundraising for fighting cancer through his university. Paul had conducted research in the past for a project on federal courts, and he wrote for the Collegian(his college newspaper). Paul applied to the Washington Internship Program for the summer on June 15, 2006 and despite the extremely late date, WIP placed him within one day in a financial internship at Oppenheimer & Company, and Paul started working five days later! From June 20 through late August, Paul lived at Summit Hills in apartments furnished and run by the Washington Internship Program.  

Oppenheimer & Company is located on K Street, N.W. just blocks from the White House, and Paul was assigned to the executive director of investments. As one of four interns accepted by Oppenheimer for the summer, Paul worked full-time five days a week conducting financial research through Blumberg and preparing databases for clients. He concentrated on local bio-technology companies and used Excel software in the work he did on mergers and acquisitions. Paul helped his supervisor write a paper on inverted bong-yield curves, which involve the anomaly created by the fact that thirty-year bonds were offering a lower rate of return than one-year bonds. Paul’s boss sent this article to clients and then explored options for its publication. Paul enjoyed his internship and felt he learned a great deal there. In the fall, Paul began searching for a similar job in economics back

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