Forrest Berkley is a retired partner of GMO (formerly, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.), an investment management firm, since 2006. He was a partner of GMO from 1990 to 2005, and Head of Global Product Management from 2003 to 2005. He is an Investment Committee member of the Maine Community Foundation. Mr. Berkley received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. and a law degree from Harvard University. Mr. Berkley has served as a CREF Trustee since 2006.

Committee memberships

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Operations Committee
• CREF Oversight Committee

Joseph A. Boateng is the Chief Investment Officer for Casey Family Programs since 2007. Prior to joining Casey Family Programs, he served as Director of U.S. Pension Plans at Johnson & Johnson from 2002 to 2006. He is a board member of the Lumina Foundation and Waterside School, an emeritus board member of Year Up Puget Sound, member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Seattle City Employees' Retirement System, and an investment committee member for The Seattle Foundation. Mr. Boateng received a B.S. from the University of Ghana and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Boateng has served as a CREF Trustee since 2018.

Committee memberships

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee, Chair
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Operations Committee

Joseph A. Carrier served as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management for Franklin Resources, Inc., from 2020 to 2022.  He was previously Senior Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Audit Executive at Legg Mason, Inc., from 2008 to 2020.  He currently serves on the boards of the Franklin Templeton Irish Funds, Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, and Loyola University Maryland, Sellinger School of Business and Management, Department of Management and Organizations. Mr. Carrier received a B.A. from Loyola University Maryland.  He has served as a CREF Trustee since 2023.

Committee Memberships:

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Operations Committee
• CREF Oversight Committee

Janice C. Eberly is the James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University from 2002 to 2011 and since 2013, Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Academics since 2020, and served as the Chair of the Finance Department from 2005 to 2007. She is the past Vice President of the American Economics Association (2020-2021). She served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the United States Department of the Treasury from 2011 to 2013. She has served as a Board Member of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Banks since 2014, and as a Director of Avant, LLC since 2019. Professor Eberly received a B.S. from the University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Eberly has been a CREF Trustee since 2018.

Committee memberships

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Audit and Compliance Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• CREF Oversight Committee

Nancy A. Eckl was Vice President of American Beacon Advisors, Inc., an investment management firm, and of the American Beacon Funds (open-end investment companies) from 1990 to 2006. Ms. Eckl also served as Vice President of certain other funds advised by American Beacon Advisors, Inc. Ms. Eckl is an independent director and Audit Committee chair of The Lazard Funds, Inc., Lazard Retirement Series, Inc. (both open-end investment companies), and Lazard Global Total Return and Income Fund, Inc. (a New York Stock Exchange listed closed-end funds). Ms. Eckl received a B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. She is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas. Ms. Eckl has served as a CREF Trustee since 2007.

Committee memberships

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Operations Committee, Chair
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Executive Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Nominating and Governance Committee
• CREF Oversight Committee

Michael A. Forrester was Chief Executive Officer from 2014-2021, a Board member since 2007, and served as Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) from 2007 to 2014, of Copper Rock Capital Partners, LLC. He is a member of the Independent Directors Council Governing Council of the Investment Company Institute. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Dexter Southfield School. Mr. Forrester has a B.A. degree from Washington and Lee University. Mr. Forrester has served as a CREF Trustee since 2007.

Committee memberships

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Audit & Compliance Committee
  
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Nominating and Governance Committee, Chair
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Executive Committee

Howell E. Jackson has been James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law of Harvard Law School since 2004 and on the faculty since 1989. He is a Director of Commonwealth, a non-profit organization that promotes financial innovations to enhance the opportunities and security of financially vulnerable people. Professor Jackson has a B.A. degree from Brown University and a joint J.D./M.B.A. from Harvard University. Professor Jackson has served as a CREF Trustee since 2005.

Committee memberships

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Executive Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Operations Committee
• CREF Oversight Committee, Chair

Nicole Thorne Jenkins has been the John A. Griffin Dean of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia since 2020. She was previously the Vice Dean (2016-2020), Von Allmen Chaired Professor of Accountancy (2017-2020), and Associate Professor and EY Research Fellow (2012-2017) at Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky.  She currently serves as a Trustee and Chair of the Audit & Finance Committee of the Strada Education Network. Dean Jenkins received a B.S. from Drexel University and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Maryland. Dean Jenkins has served as a CREF Trustee since 2023.

Committee Memberships:

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Audit and Compliance Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• CREF Oversight Committee

Thomas J. Kenny served as an Advisory Director from 2010 to 2011, Partner from 2004 to 2010, Managing Director from 1999 to 2004 and Co-Head from 2002 to 2010 of Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Global Cash and Fixed Income Portfolio Management team, having worked at Goldman Sachs since 1999. Mr. Kenny is a director and the Chair of the Finance and Investment Committee of Aflac Incorporated and a Director of ParentSquare. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.S. from Golden Gate University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has served as a CREF Trustee since 2011 and as Chairman of the Board since 2017.

Committee memberships

• CREF Board of Trustees, Chairman
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Executive Committee, Chair
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Audit and Compliance Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Nominating and Governance Committee

James M. Poterba has been President and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2008. He has been the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) since 1996, an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Finance Group at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management since 2014, and was the Head of the Economics Department from 2006 until 2008 at MIT, where he has taught since 1983. From 1994 to 2000 and 2001 to 2006 he was Associate Head of the Economics Department at MIT. He was the Director of the Public Economics Research Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1990 to 2008. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers.  He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. Dr. Poterba has served as a CREF Trustee since 2006.

Committee memberships

• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Investment Committee
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Audit and Compliance Committee, Chair
• TIAA-CREF Fund Complex Executive Committee
• TIAA Nominating and Governance Committee
• CREF Oversight Committee