Roger Ferguson - Alphabet Director

Dr. Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. is Independent Director of Alphabet Inc. He has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2016. Roger has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA, a major financial services company, since April 2008. He joined TIAA after his tenure at Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company, where he served as Chairman of the firms America Holding Corporationrationration, Head of Financial Services, and a member of the Executive Committee from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that, Roger joined the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System in 1997 and served as its Vice Chairman from 1999 to 2006. From 1984 to 1997, he was an associate and partner at McKinsey Company. Roger was a member of the board of directors of General Mills, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods, since December 2015, and serves as chair of its finance committee and as a member of its corporate governance committee and a member of the board of directors of International Flavors Fragrances, Inc., a creator of flavors and fragrances, since April 2010, and serves as chair of its compensation committee. Roger is also a member of the Smithsonian Institutions Board of Regents and serves on the New York State Insurance Advisory Board. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts Sciences and cochairs its Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. He is currently Chairman of the Conference Board and serves on the boards of the American Council of Life Insurers, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society and a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Group of Thirty. Roger holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, a Doctoral degree in economics, and a Juris Doctor degree, all from Harvard University. since 2016.