Contact Info

California Public Employees’
Retirement System
Lincoln Plaza East
400 Q Street
Sacramento, CA 95811

anne_simpson@
calpers.ca.gov
(916) 795-3829

Anne Simpson

Head of Corporate Governance, California Public Employee’s Retirement System (CalPERS)

Anne Simpson serves as Senior Portfolio Manager and head of Corporate Governance at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension fund in the United States. With more than $235 billion in market assets, CalPERS provides retirement and health benefits to more than 1.6 million public employees, retirees and their families. Prior to joining CalPERS in mid 2009, Anne served as Executive Director of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), an organization that represents investors responsible for $15 trillion in global assets—roughly the value of the entire U.S. or EU economy. Anne has authored two books on corporate governance, and serves as a Senior Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University’s School of Management. She is a graduate of Oxford University, and was a Slater Fellow at Wellesley College.

Issues: Anti-Trust Regulations, Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Corporate Incentives, Developing Economies, Discretionary Spending, Efficient Government, Entrepreneurialism, Fannie/Freddie, Federal Budget, Financial Markets, Globalization, Government Investment, Housing Market Collapse, International Competition, Multi-national corporations, Municipal/State Budgets, National Debt, Off Shore Tax Shelters, Payroll Taxes, Privatization, Ratings Agencies, Securitization, Small Business, Social Insurance, Too Big To Fail, Trade, Unfunded Mandates, Wealth Creation

Experience:

• Executive Senior Portfolio Manager, California Public Employee’s Retirement System (CalPERS)
• Senior Faculty Fellow and Lecturer, Yale University School of Management
• Executive Director, International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
• Senior Faculty Fellow and Lecturer, School of Management, Yale University
• Head, Global Corporate Governance Forum, World Bank
• Joint Managing Director, Investment Firm PIRC Ltd in London

Education:

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Oxford University
Slater Fellow, Development Economics, Wellesley College

Books:

Anne Simpson with Jonathan P. Charkham. Fair Shares: the future of shareholder power and responsibility. Oxford University Press, 1999

Additional Issues: Capital Market Regulation, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Globalization and ESG, Investment, Investor Responsibility