Vivien Azer is a managing director and senior research analyst specializing in the beverage, tobacco, and cannabis sectors. Ms. Azer is the first senior Wall Street analyst to cover the emerging cannabis sector, resulting in notable press coverage across periodicals such as The Economist, Barron’s and Forbes.
Ms. Azer’s coverage of the tobacco sector earned her a spot on Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team on several occasions. She has consistently been ranked by Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards (StarMine), and in 2017, she was ranked #1 and #2 for stock picking in beverages and tobacco, respectively, and #2 for earnings estimation in tobacco. Prior to joining Cowen and Company in 2014, she spent over nine years at Citi covering consumer staples. Ms. Azer holds a BA from the College of William and Mary and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.
