Michael S. McPherson

"Michael S. McPherson, 71, has served as President of the TIAA Board of Overseers since 2010. He has been President Emeritus of The Spencer Foundation since July 2017 and served as President from 2003 to 2017. Dr. McPherson is a member of the executive planning board of Project Pericles and is a member of the board of Forum on the Future of Higher Education at MIT. He is a Mellon Research Follow and a non-resident fellow of the Urban Institute in Washington. D.C. He received a B.A. in mathematics, an M.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago."

Michael S. McPherson "is the fifth President of the Spencer Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2003 he served as President of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota for seven years. A nationally known economist whose expertise focuses on the interplay between education and economics, McPherson spent the 22 years prior to his Macalester presidency as professor of economics, chairman of the Economics Department, and dean of faculty at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics, an M.A. in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics, all from the University of Chicago.

"McPherson, who is co-author and editor of several books, including College Access: Opportunity or Privilege?, Keeping College Affordable and Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, was founding co-editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. He has served as a trustee of the College Board, the American Council on Education, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. McPherson has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution."