Roger W. Ferguson

President and CEO, TIAA-CREF

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization with $402 billion in combined assets under management (as of 9/30/09). 

Mr. Ferguson served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.  He was a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, served as Chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, and chaired Federal Reserve Board committees on banking supervision and regulation, payment system policy and reserve bank oversight.

Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in April 2008, Mr. Ferguson was head of financial services for Swiss Re, Chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corporation and a member of the company’s executive committee.  From 1984 to 1997, he was an Associate and Partner at McKinsey & Company.  He began his career as an attorney at the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Mr. Ferguson was a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board and served on the Transition Economic Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Boards of Trustees for the Institute for Advanced Study, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the New America Foundation, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  He is on the Board of Directors of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP and the Partnership for New York City, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Harvard Law School Visiting Committee, and the Group of Thirty.

Mr. Ferguson holds a B.A., J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics, all from Harvard University.