Ms. Laurie Fitch (YAB ’91)
Partner, Strategic Advisory Group
PJT Partners
Portugal
Ms. Laurie Fitch is a partner at PJT Partners, where she advises companies on mergers and acquisitions in the global industrials and utilities sectors. Prior to investment banking, she spent the majority of her career as an institutional investor at TIAA-CREF and Artisan Partners.
Laurie is a non-executive director of EDP, Portugal’s electric utility and one of the largest global renewable energy developers. She is also the non-executive director of Man Group plc and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and Remuneration Committee.
She is board chair of Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies as well as a member of the Tate Board of Trustees’ Finance and Operations and Audit Subcommittees.
Laurie spent a year abroad at AUC in 1991. She has a BA in Arabic and Middle East Studies from American University and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and was the 2021 recipient of Georgetown’s 1820 Graduate Award.