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Myra R. Drucker | |
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 Myra Drucker, 2012 | |
| Born | Myra Rose Drucker January 16, 1948 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence College (B.A.) |
| Board member of | Grantham Mayo van Otterloo (GMO) TrustedPeer Inc. Kresge Foundation (IC) Nathan Cummings Foundation (IC) Boeing EBIC Advisor |
| Children | 3 |
Myra R. Drucker (born 1948) is an American business woman and investor. She is a former chief investment officer of various U.S. corporations and has served, and currently serves, on several corporate and charitable boards of directors.
Life and career[edit]
Myra Drucker was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Solomon, ran a fabric store in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and her mother, Marci, was a kindergarten teacher for thirty-five years in the New York City school system. Myra earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and literature from Sarah Lawrence College in 1968.
Ms. Drucker is an independent director of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co and chairs its board Risk and Audit Committee. She is also chair of the board of TrustedPeer Inc., an online business expert network. Ms. Drucker is a frequent speaker and advisor on board governance issues. She is a member of the investment committees of the Kresge Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and an advisory member of the Boeing Company Employee Benefits Investment Committee. She is past chair and current ex-officio member of the New York Stock Exchange Pension Managers Advisory Committee, past chair of the board of Commonfund and honorary trustee and past vice chair of the board of Sarah Lawrence College.
Ms. Drucker was formerly managing director of General Motors Asset Management (GMAM) and chief investment officer of General Motors Trust Bank, where she headed GMAM’s outsourced CIO business. Before that, she was chief investment officer of Xerox Corporation, and led pension investments for International Paper Company. Ms. Drucker’s previous years in the investment field include investment consulting and pioneering work in the use of quantitatively-based strategies to actively manage equity portfolios for pension and endowment funds.
Ms. Drucker has served as a trustee of the Putnam Mutual Funds, a director of Interactive Data Corporation (until the company’s sale in 2010), a director of New York Stock Exchange LLC (a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext), and a member of the advisory board of RCM Capital Management. She has served on the Investor’s Practices Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, the NYSE Corporate Accountability and Listing Standards Committee, and the joint NYSE/NASD IPO Advisory Committee. She is past chair of the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, an industry group of corporate pension investment executives responsible for $1 trillion in plan assets. She has served on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Rockefeller Foundation Finance Committee, the board of the ERISA Industry Committee, the World Bank Pension Advisory Committee, the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Equity Products Advisory Committee.
Honors[edit]
In 2011, Ms. Drucker received the Institutional Investor Magazine Investor Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been ranked as one of the best pension officers in America by Institutional Investor Magazine and Pensions and Investments, and cited by Money Magazine as one of the “Fifty Smartest Women in the Money Business.”
Personal life[edit]
Myra lives in Connecticut, where she is currently working on a book on the anthropology of corporate culture. She is married and has three children.