James
M.
Poterba
Chair, Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee
CREF Trustee since 2006
James M. Poterba, 50, is the Mitsui Professor of Economics (since 1996) and the Head of the Economics Department (since 2006 and until August 31, 2008) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1983. From 1994 to 2000 and 2001 to 2006 he was Associate Head of the Economics Department at MIT. He has been the Director of the Public Economics Research Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1991. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has served as a director of the American Finance Association and as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association. He has been elected President and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research effective July 1, 2008. He is a director of the Jeffrey Company and Jeflion Company, which are unregistered investment companies. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. Dr. Poterba has served as a CREF Trustee since 2006.
