D. Ellen Shuman,
Consultant. Ms. Shuman is Vice
President and Chief Investment Officer of the Carnegie Corporation of
New York.
A graduate of Bowdoin College and the Yale School of
Management, Ms. Shuman worked in the Yale University Investments Office
from 1986 to 1998. She reported
to the Chief Investment Officer and was active in all areas of the
portfolio, in particular the development of its real estate program.
She was a lecturer at Yale College and the Yale School of
Management from 1994 to 1998.
Ms. Shuman became Carnegie’s Chief Investment
Officer in 1999. In that
position she is responsible for investment of its $2.4 billion
endowment, including asset allocation, portfolio risk analysis and
manager selection. She has
overseen the expansion of the Corporation’s traditional portfolio into
alternative assets, including absolute return, private equity and real
estate.
Ms. Shuman is a trustee of Bowdoin College and a
member of its investment committee.
She is a director of the The Investment Fund for Foundations,
serves as an investment advisor to the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation,
and is a director of General American Investors (NYSE:GAM), one of the
oldest closed end funds in the United States.
