CEO Series: Roger Ferguson, President & CEO, TIAA-CREF

February 20, 2015, 12-1:30 p.m. at the Minneapolis Club

Limited to 35 guests. Members Only! February 20, 2015, 12 – 1.30 p.m. at The Minneapolis Club

As a member of the Harvard Club of Minnesota, you are invited to attend a special, invitation-only lunch with Roger Ferguson, President and CEO of TIAA-CREF.  
 
Retirement in the 21st Century
 
With the decline of traditional pension plans, funding retirement has become a do-it-yourself proposition for most Americans. Yet far too many lack the financial knowledge they need to make wise decisions about saving and investment. TIAA-CREF’s CEO Roger Ferguson will discuss today’s retirement landscape and how it has changed over time, highlighting the challenges we now face as a nation. He will address the need to rethink, repair, and restart America’s retirement system – while outlining what individuals can do to better ensure their own lifelong financial security in the current environment.


Mr. Ferguson is the former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He represented the Federal Reserve on several international policy groups and served on key Federal Reserve System committees, including Payment System Oversight, Reserve Bank Operations, and Supervision and Regulation. As the only Governor in Washington, D.C. on 9/11, he led the Fed’s initial response to the terrorist attacks, taking actions that kept the U.S. financial system functioning while reassuring the global financial community that the U.S. economy would not be paralyzed.

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 fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. He serves on the board of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and on the advisory board of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP.

He is chairman of the Business-Higher Education Forum and a board member of The Conference Board, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Group of Thirty.

Mr. Ferguson serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers. He served on President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness as well as its predecessor, the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and he co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Long-Run Macro-Economic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population.

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

For more information and to register, click on the link below. Space is limited to the first 35 people who sign up.  As a Harvard Club Member, you have first priority to register.  

$37.50 in advance for Harvard Club members; $40 for non-Harvard club members. Parking to be paid separately to the club; CASH only.

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