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Kim Lew

Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Kim Lew

Kim Y. Lew is Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a private foundation established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie. In 2017, Lew was named CIO of the Year by Institutional Investors and Foundation CIO of the Year by CIO Magazine. The $3.5 billion portfolio is global in scope and diversified by asset class and strategy. While at Carnegie, she also served as co-Chief Investment Officer and Director of Investments with responsibility for private equity. Prior to joining Carnegie, she spent thirteen years at the Ford Foundation. She has also worked at Prudential Capital and Chemical Bank. Lew earned a B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Harvard Business School and was awarded her CFA designation. Lew is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Stevens Cooperative School, and serves on the Mutual Fund Board of Ariel Investments and Board of TIFF Advisory Services. She is on the Steering Committee of the Private Equity Women Investor Network and is a member of the Investment Committee of the ACLU and Wesleyan University. She is married and the mother of two daughters.