Scott Evans, CFA

Former Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer

Scott C. Evans, CFA, is the former Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer for the Office of the New York City Comptroller, which serves as an investment advisor to the New York City Retirement Systems. With over $190 billion in assets, it is the fourth-largest public pension fund in the United States providing retirement benefits to over 700,000 members, retirees and their beneficiaries.

Mr. Evans serves as Trustee and Chair of the Finance & Investment Committee for the William T. Grant Foundation. Prior to his appointment Mr. Evans was most recently Executive Vice President of TIAA-CREF and President of its Asset Management subsidiaries. He was also a member of the Investor’s Advisory Group of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

Prior to his appointment Mr. Evans was most recently Executive Vice President of TIAA-CREF and President of its Asset Management subsidiaries.

Past external investment roles include serving on the investment committees of the Dutch pension fund ABP, Tufts University Endowment, Rockefeller Family Fund (Chair) and Barnard College (Co-Chair). Other past external roles include serving as trustee of the IFRS Foundation, which sets accounting standards for more than 100 countries, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Improvement to Financial Reporting, Trustee of Barnard College, and Dean’s Advisory Council at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Mr. Evans holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of CFA Society New York. He earned an M.M. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.