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 and public policies for managing the world's interdependent economy. The Board of Directors comprises 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 oversees PIIE's budget and management, while regularly evaluating PIIE's performance in pursuit of our mission.
Senior Management is responsible for setting PIIE's substantive agenda in consultation with the Board of Directors, the research staff, and other stakeholders.
Members of the Board
Michael A. Peterson * (Chair of the Board)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Stephen Freidheim * (Chair of the Executive Committee)
CIO, Founder and Managing Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners, LLC.
Caroline Atkinson*
Former Head of Global Policy, Google, Inc.; Former Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics to President Barack Obama
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
CEO, Oscar Health
Neeti Bhalla Johnson*
President, Global Risk Solutions, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Julie Boland
Area Managing Partner, EY Americas; US Managing Partner, EY
Frank Brosens
Principal, Cofounder, Taconic Capital Advisors L.P.
Jason Cummins*
Head of Research and Chief US Economist, Brevan Howard
Barry Eichengreen
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Georges Elhedery
Group CEO, HSBC Holdings plc.
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Immediate Past President & CEO, TIAA
Peter R. Fisher*
Former Under Secretary of the US Treasury for Domestic Finance; Senior Advisor, BlackRock
Esther L. George
Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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
Kelly Grier
Former US Chairman and Managing Partner and Americas Managing Partner, EY
Herbjorn Hansson
Chairman and CEO, Nordic American Tankers Limited
J. Tomilson Hill
President, Hill Art Foundation
Stephen Howe, Jr.*
Retired Chairman and CEO, Ernst & Young LLP; Current Board Member, Carnegie Hall, Lazard, Liberty Science Center, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Merit E. Janow
Non-executive Independent Chair of the Board of Directors, Mastercard; Dean Emerita, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Hugh F. Johnston
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, The Walt Disney Company
Michael Klein*
Managing Partner of M. Klein and Company, LLC; former Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Ramon Laguarta
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo
Charles D. Lake II
President, Aflac International; Chairman and Representative Director, Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd.
David M. Leuschen
Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director, Riverstone Holdings
Barbara G. Novick
Senior Advisor, BlackRock
Tetsuo "Ted" Ogawa
President and Chief Executive Officer, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TMNA)
Hutham S. Olayan
Chairman, The Olayan Group
Peter R. Orszag
Chairman and CEO, Lazard
James W. Owens
Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Caterpillar
Jonathan Pruzan
President, Pretium; Former Chief Operating Officer, Morgan Stanley
Ginni M. Rometty
Former IBM Chairman, President and CEO
Jin Roy Ryu
Chairman, Federation of Korean Industries; Chairman and CEO, Poongsan Group
Richard E. Salomon*
Managing Partner, East End Advisors, LLC
Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Temasek Holdings
Mostafa Terrab
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, OCP S.A.
Mark Tucker
Independent Non-executive Chairman, AIA Group Limited
Laura D. Tyson
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
D. James Umpleby III
Executive Chairman, Board of Directors, Caterpillar Inc.
Gertjan Vlieghe
Vice Chairman, FIC, Millennium Capital Partners LLP
William von Mueffling
President, Cantillon Capital Management
Ronald A. Williams
Retired Chairman and CEO, Aetna Inc.
Min Zhu
Chairman, National Institution of Financial Research, Tsinghua University
Robert B. Zoellick*
Senior Counselor, Brunswick Group; Senior Fellow, Harvard University's Belfer Center; 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
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
Ernesto Zedillo
Former President of Mexico
Founding Chair
Peter G. Peterson (1926–2018; Institute Chair 1981–2018)
Founder and Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Co-founder, The Blackstone Group; former Secretary of Commerce and Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy
* indicates Executive Committee member