Biography

Mr. Jeffery joined the board in March 2026. Mr. Jeffery is an American financial executive and former senior U.S. government official with leadership experience spanning investment banking, financial regulation, and U.S. economic and national security policy. He currently serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Americas Holdings, Inc. (since 2020) and is a Non-Executive Director of PartnerRe Ltd. (since 2022).

Mr. Jeffery began his career at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York and practiced corporate, banking, and securities law at Davis Polk and Wardwell before joining Goldman Sachs in 1983, where he spent 18 years in senior leadership roles in London and Paris. Following 9/11, Jeffery entered government service and served as the White House coordinator for federal recovery and redevelopment efforts as Special Advisor to the President for Lower Manhattan Development. He later supported U.S. efforts related to Iraq reconstruction and interagency coordination, including as Senior Advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad and subsequently as the Representative and Executive Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority office at the Pentagon. From 2004–2005, he served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the National Security Council, then as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a member of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. In 2007, he was appointed Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs. From 2010 to 2018, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller and Co., a global investment advisory and asset management firm.