Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.

President and Chief Executive Officer

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 more than $400 billion in combined assets under management.

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 is a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Board of Overseers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He serves on the Advisory Board of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP and the Board of Directors of the Partnership for New York City, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Harvard University Visiting Committee for the Memorial Church, and the Group of Thirty.

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