EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4:30-6 p.m. Sept. 27, 2012

EVENT: Roger Ferguson, president and chief executive officer of TIAA-CREF, will address retirement issues as part of the “Policy Talks @ the Ford School.” His remarks will cover the current retirement landscape, how the American retirement system can be repaired and what individuals can do to ensure their own lifelong financial security.

TIAA-CREF is the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial service organization.

Ferguson has served as vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He was a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, served as chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, and chaired Federal Reserve Board committees on banking supervision and regulation, payment system policy, and reserve bank oversight.

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 is a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and served on its predecessor, the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in April 2008, Ferguson was head of financial services for Swiss Re, chairman of Swiss Re American Holding Corp., and a member of the company’s executive committee. From 1984 to 1997, he was an associate and partner at McKinsey & Co. He began his career as an attorney at the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardell.

LIVE WEBSTREAM: http://www.fordschool.umich.edu

PLACE: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Annenberg Auditorium, 735 S. State Street, 1120 Weill Hall, Ann Arbor

SPONSOR: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

CONTACT: Laura Lee, Ford School of Public Policy, lklee@umich.edu, (734) 764-8593