Christopher Ailman has been the chief investment officer of CalSTRS for 18 years. He leads an investment staff of 160 and oversees a portfolio valued at $228 billion as of March 31, 2019. He has over 35 years of institutional investment experience. Each year, he is recognized as one of the top CIOs both in the U.S. and globally, and he is chair of the SASB Investor Advisory Group, helping promote integration of the standards in security analysis and portfolio construction. In 2016, he was part of the first cohort to achieve a Fundamentals of Sustainable Accounting (FSA) credential. He has served on several boards and advisory boards in the U.S. and U.K. He is the North American chair of the 300 Club, a group of leading investment professionals from around the globe, and is co-chair of the Milken Global Capital Markets Committee. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, from CIO of the Year in 2000 to being named the number three CIO in the world and Investment Innovator of the Year in 2013. In November 2017, Mr. Ailman received Institutional Investor magazine’s first Lifetime Achievement Award.