Eric Pan

Eric J. Pan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Company Institute (ICI), the leading association representing the global asset management industry in service of long-term individual investors. ICI members manage more than $34 trillion worldwide, and ICI has offices in Washington DC, Brussels, and London.

Mr. Pan previously served as the Director of the Office of International Affairs at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and before that as head of international regulatory policy at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He represented both market regulators in international standard-setting bodies, including the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and Financial Stability Board (FSB), and in regulatory dialogues with European and Asian counterparts. He chaired several international committees and working groups.

In addition to his government service, Mr. Pan was a Managing Director of Rock Creek Global Advisors LLC, a leading international economic advisory firm in Washington DC and Director of the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York where he wrote extensively about financial regulation and corporate law. He also practiced corporate and international law with Covington & Burling in Washington DC.

Mr. Pan is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Edinburgh, and the Harvard Law School. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School in New York.