Dr. Cecilia A. Conrad has served as President of the TIAA Board of Governors since 2023. She is CEO and Founder of Lever for Change, and is Senior Advisor for Collaborative Philanthropy and Fellows at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Conrad is also Professor Emerita of Pomona College. She serves on the boards of Giving Tuesday, The Hypothesis Fund LLC, the African Center for Economic Transformation, IES Abroad, Future Leaders Foundation, Bryn Mawr College, National Academy of Social Insurance and Poetry Foundation, and is a Trustee Emerita of Muhlenberg College. Ms. Conrad earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

President Ronald J. Daniels has served as the President of Johns Hopkins University since 2009. He is the director of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. and is a member of the boards of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and the Association of American Universities. President Daniels earned a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Toronto, and an L.L.M. from Yale University.

Thasunda Brown Duckett has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA since 2021. From 2016 to 2021, she was Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co. From 2013 to 2016, she was Chief Executive Officer, Chase Auto Finance, and from 2004 to 2013 she held a number of positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co., including National Retail Sales Executive for Chase Home Lending. From 1996 to 2004, she held various roles including Director, Emerging Markets at Fannie Mae. Ms. Duckett has served on the Board of Directors of Nike, Inc. since 2019 and of Brex since 2022. She is a Trustee of the Economic Club of New York and is a member of the boards of the Children’s Learning Centers of Fairfield County, National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Sesame Workshop, and the Otis and Rosie Brown Foundation, which board she also chairs. She is also a member of the Dean’s Council of Baylor University Hankamer School of Business, the Board of Visitors of the University of Houston, and the Board of Directors of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of Houston and an M.B.A. from Baylor University. Ms. Duckett provides extensive experience in executive leadership, business management, banking and financial services operations and marketing, client engagement, and digital transformation.

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

• TIAA Executive Committee
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Population Health and Health Equity Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2003 to 2017, where she also served as Senior Vice President from 2001 to 2003. From 1986 to 2001, she was a distinguished professor and administrator at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is a member of the boards of General Electric Health Care, Merck, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Previously, she served on the boards of Intel Corporation from 2018 to 2025, General Electric from 2017 to 2022, and Better Therapeutics from 2021 to 2024. She is a member of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and The American Philosophical Society. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey holds an M.D. from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ted R. Mitchell has served as President of the American Council on Education since 2017. He served as United States Under Secretary of Education from 2014 to 2017, reporting to the Secretary of Education and overseeing postsecondary education policies and programs. From 2005 to 2014, Dr. Mitchell was Chief Executive Officer of the NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization providing seed capital and counsel to leading education entrepreneurs at the K-12 level. From 2008 to 2010, he also served as president of the California State Board of Education. From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Mitchell was president of Occidental College; his earlier positions included Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Dartmouth College. He served on the board of directors of The McClatchy Company from 2001 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2020, and he has served on the board of directors of Coursera since 2020. He also serves on the board of directors of Credential Engine, Trio Schools, Khan Academy, GED Testing Service, Deans for Impact, the National Advisory Board of the Hass Center for Public Service at Stanford University, and the Geffen Academy at UCLA. Dr. Mitchell received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. from Stanford University.