Forrest Berkley

CREF Trustee since 2006

Forrest Berkley, 56, retired partner of GMO (formerly Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterlo & Co.), an investment management firm, since 2006, was a partner from 1990 to 2005, Head of Global Product Management from 2003 to 2005 and a member of its asset allocation portfolio management team from 2003 to 2005. He is a director of GMO; a director of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust; a member of the Investment Committees of the Maine Community Foundation, the Butler Conservation Fund, Inc., and the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation; and a director of the Appalachian Mountain Club. Mr. Berkley received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. and a law degree from Harvard University. He has served as a CREF Trustee since 2006.