Hye-Won Choi
Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Governance
TIAA-CREF

Hye-Won Choi is Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Governance at TIAA-CREF.  TIAA-CREF, a financial services group of companies located in New York, had assets under management of about $363 billion as of December 31, 2008.

On behalf of the boards of the TIAA-CREF group of companies, Ms. Choi and her colleagues work to enhance the governance/social responsibility practices of companies held within TIAA-CREF’s investment portfolios with the objective of increasing shareholder value and improving long-term performance.

Ms. Choi has presented at numerous corporate governance conferences in the United States and internationally and has been quoted in major publications.  She also represents TIAA-CREF on various international corporate governance networks and coalitions. In 2009, Ms. Choi was appointed co-chair of the SEC investor advisory committee formed to give investors a greater voice in the work of the Commission.

Ms. Choi received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard in 1985 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in 1994, Ms. Choi was in private practice in securities and corporate law.