Daniel Alpert is an American investment banker, adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, commentator, and author.

[3] Alpert is a founding partner of Westwood Capital LLC, an investment firm based in New York, and an adviser to the Coalition for a Prosperous America.

[6] Alpert received a Bachelor of Arts degree in public policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and started working in commercial real estate banking and finance in 1982.

[1] That same year, Alpert conceived of, and co-authored along with Nouriel Roubini, New York University Professor of Economics, and Robert Hockett, a Professor of Financial Law at Cornell University, a widely cited and debated white paper on behalf of the New America Foundation entitled The Way Forward that has been credited on most sides of the macroeconomic debate with providing a clear and concise explanation of the issues that gave rise to the global financial crisis.

[12] In 2016, he published the white paper GLUT: The U.S. Economy and the American Worker in the Age of Oversupply on the connection between global imbalances and United States employment, and co-authored The Debt Goes On: A Post-Crisis 'Progress' Report at Cornell.