David
F.
Swensen
Chair, Investment Committee
TIAA Trustee since 2003
David F. Swensen, 55, has been Chief Investment Officer for Yale University since 1985. He is also an adjunct professor of investment strategy at Yale’s School of Management and a lecturer in its Department of Economics. He is a board member of The Brookings Institution and the Hamden Hall Country Day School, a senior trustee of the Carnegie Institution, and a member of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Mr. Swensen earned a B.S. and B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and a M.Phil., M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.