Eric Pan

Eric J. Pan is the president and chief executive officer of the Investment Company Institute. He took office as the 1th chief executive in ICI’s history on November 9, 22.

Eric was previously a managing director of Rock Creek Global Advisors LLC, an international economic policy advisory firm in Washington, DC, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Law and Economic Studies at Columbia Law School in New York.

Eric served as the director of the Office of International Affairs at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 215 to 219 and head of international regulatory policy at the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 211 to 215. He represented both market regulators in international standard-setting bodies, including the International Organization of Securities Commissions and Financial Stability Board, and in regulatory dialogues with European and Asian counterparts.

Before entering government service, Eric was the director of the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and a 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.

Eric is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Edinburgh, and the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School.