Nancy
A.
Eckl
CREF Trustee since 2007
Nancy A. Eckl, 45, was Vice President of American Beacon Advisors, Inc., an investment management firm, and of the American Beacon Funds (open-end mutual funds) from 1990 to 2006. Ms. Eckl also served as Vice President of certain other funds advised by American Beacon Advisors. Ms. Eckl is an independent director of The Lazard Funds, Inc. and Lazard Retirement Series, Inc. (both open-end mutual funds), Lazard Global Total Return and Income Fund, Inc. and Lazard World Dividend and Income Fund, Inc. (both New York Stock Exchange listed closed-end funds), and an independent member of the board of managers of Lazard Alternative Strategies Fund, L.L.C. (a closed-end investment company). Ms. Eckl has a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas. Ms. Eckl has served as a CREF Trustee since 2007.
