Eric J. Pan (President and CEO of the Investment Company Institute)
Chair of the International Investment Funds Association 

Eric J. Pan is the President and CEO of the Investment Company Institute (ICI), the leading association representing the global asset management industry with offices in Washington DC, Brussels, and London. ICI’s mission is to strengthen the foundation of the asset management industry for the ultimate benefit of the long-term individual investor.

Mr. Pan also chairs the International Investment Funds Association, the body of national and regional associations representing investment funds in all parts of the world.   

Mr. Pan previously served as the Director of the Office of International Affairs at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and head of international regulatory policy at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He represented both market regulators in international standard-setting bodies, including the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and Financial Stability Board (FSB), and in regulatory dialogues with European and Asian counterparts. He chaired several international committees and working groups.

In addition to his government service, Mr. Pan was a Managing Director of Rock Creek Global Advisors LLC, a leading international economic advisory firm in Washington DC, and Director of the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York where he wrote extensively about financial regulation and corporate law. He began his career practicing corporate and international law with Covington & Burling in Washington DC.

Mr. Pan is an honors graduate of Harvard College, the University of Edinburgh, and the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School in New York where he also was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Law and Economic Studies. He serves on the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press’s Journal of Financial Regulation. His opinion pieces in recent years have appeared in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Les Echos, South China Morning Post and Risk.net.

IIFA BOARD MEMBERS

Kaleon Leong Bin Rahan
CEO, Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia (FIMM)
  
Monica Cavallini Richani
CEO, Asociación de Fondos Mutuos de Chile (AFM)

José Carlos Doherty
CEO, Associação Brasileira das Entidades dos Mercados Financeiro e de Capitais (ANBIMA)

Valentín Galardi
President, Argentine Mutual Funds Association (CAFCI)

Yoshio Hishida
Chairman, Investment Management Association of Japan (IMAJ)

Paula Ip
CEO, Hong Kong Investment Funds Association (HKIFA)

Andy Mitchell
President & CEO, Securities and Investment Management Association (SIMA)

Kaizer Moyane
CEO, Association for Savings & Investment SA (ASISA)

Thomas Richter
CEO, Bundesverband Investment und Asset Management e.V. (BVI)

Adrian Schatzmann
CEO, Asset Management Association Switzerland (AMAS)

Tanguy van de Werve
Director General, European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA)

Carmen Wee
CEO, Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS)

Serge Weyland 
CEO, Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)

(Updated: June 2026)