Board of Directors

The Board of Directors’ principal goal is to protect and strengthen PIIE’s excellence as an independent, nonpartisan, and intellectually rigorous policy research organization that contributes to the public’s understanding of the challenges and opportunities posed by the world’s interdependent economy. The Board of Directors is comprised of a diverse group of business leaders, former high-level government officials, international civil servants, and distinguished scholars.

The Executive Committee (indicated by *) of our Board of Directors bears legal responsibility for PIIE’s direction, while regularly evaluating PIIE’s performance in pursuit of our mission.

Senior Management is responsible for PIIE’s agenda in consultation with the Board of Directors, the research staff, and other stakeholders.

Members of the Board

Peter G. Peterson * (Chairman of the Board)
Founder and Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; former Senior Chairman, The Blackstone Group; former Secretary of Commerce and Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy
James W. Owens * (Chairman of the Executive Committee)
Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Caterpillar
Caroline Atkinson
Head of Global Policy, Google, Inc.
Ajay Banga
President and Chief Executive Officer, MasterCard
C. Fred Bergsten *
Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus, Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Mark T. Bertolini
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Aetna
Ben van Beurden
CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
Neeti Bhalla Johnson
Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development; former Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank
Frank Brosens
Principal, Cofounder, Taconic Capital Advisors L.P.
Ronnie C. Chan
Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Limited
Susan M. Collins
Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Richard N. Cooper
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University
Andreas C. Dracopoulos *
Director and co-President, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Barry Eichengreen
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Einhorn *
Former Dean, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; former Managing Director for Finance and Resource Mobilization, World Bank
Peter Fisher
Senior Director, BlackRock Investment Institute; former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance
Douglas Flint
Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc.
Stephen Freidheim *
CIO, Founder and Managing Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners, LLC.
Jacob A. Frenkel
Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International, former Governor of the Bank of Israel; former IMF Economic Counselor and Director of Research
Evan G. Greenberg
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chubb Limited/Chubb Group
Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr and Co., Inc.; former Chairman, American International Group
Herbjorn Hansson
Chairman and CEO, Nordic American Tankers Limited
Stephen Howe, Jr.
US Chairman and Americas Managing Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
Jay Jacobs
Former President and Managing Director, PIMCO.
Hugh F. Johnston
Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.
Michael Klein*
Managing Partner of M. Klein and Company, LLC; former Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Nobuyori Kodaira
Member of the Board of Directors, Toyota Motor Corporation and Chairman, The Toyota Foundation
Charles D. Lake II
President, Aflac International Incorporated, and Chairman, Aflac Japan
Andrew N. Liveris
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Dow Chemical Company
Sergio Marchionne
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chrysler Group LLC; Chief Executive Officer, Fiat S.p.A., and Chairman, Fiat Industrial S.p.A. and CNH Global N.V.
Pip McCrostie
Former Global Vice Chair – Transaction Advisory Services, EY
Hutham S. Olayan *
President and CEO, Olayan America
Peter R. Orszag
Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co.
Jonathan Pruzan
Chief Financial Officer, Morgan Stanley
Michael A. Peterson *
President and Chief Executive Officer, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Ginni M. Rometty
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Business Machines Corporation
Lynn Forester de Rothschild *
CEO and President, E.L. Rothschild Limited
Richard E. Salomon *
Managing Partner, East End Advisors, LLC
Sheikh Hamad Saud Al-Sayari
Former Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
Lawrence H. Summers *
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; former Secretary of the Treasury; former Chair of the National Economic Council
Mostafa Terrab
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, OCP S.A.
Jim Umpleby
Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, Caterpillar Inc.
Ronald A. Williams
Retired Chairman and CEO, Aetna Inc.
Min Zhu
Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Robert B. Zoellick *
Chairman of the Board of Directors, AllianceBernstein; former President, World Bank Group; former US Trade Representative

Honorary Directors

George David
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Technologies Corporation.
Alan Greenspan
Former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Townsend-Greenspan and Co.; former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers.
Carla A. Hills
Chairman, Hills & Company; former United States Trade Representative; former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Frank E. Loy
Chairman, Board of Directors, Resources for the Future; Acting Chair, Board of Directors, Populations Services International; former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; former Chairman of the Board, League of Conservation Voters; former President, German Marshall Fund of the United States; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.
George P. Shultz
Honorary Fellow, Hoover Institution; former Secretary of State; President and Director of Bechtel Group, Inc.; Secretary of the Treasury; Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Secretary of Labor.
Jean-Claude Trichet
Chairman of the Group of Thirty; former President, European Central Bank; former Governor, Banque de France; former Director of the Treasury, government of France.
Paul A. Volcker
Henry Kaufman Visiting Professor, New York University Stern School of Business; former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs.
Ernesto Zedillo
Former President of Mexico.

Ex Officio

* indicates Executive Committee member