Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., is President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF, a position he has held since April 2008. Previously, he was a member of the executive committee and Chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corporation.

Mr. Ferguson has also 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 and chaired Federal Reserve Board committees on banking supervision and regulation, payment system policy and reserve bank oversight. He also served as Chairman of the Financial Stability Forum. In 2001, Mr. Ferguson led the Federal Reserve's immediate response to the terrorist attack on September 11.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Ferguson was an Associate and Partner at McKinsey & Company and was also an attorney at the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Mr. Ferguson is a member of the Boards of Trustees for the Institute for Advanced Study, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the New America Foundation and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is on 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 and the Group of Thirty. During 2008-2009, he served as President of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Mr. Ferguson is also a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Mr. Ferguson holds a B.A., J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.