Ms. Laurie Fitch (YAB ’91)

Retired Investment Banker 
Non-Executive Director
Man Group plc, CenterPoint Energy and EDP Renewables
Portugal

Ms. Laurie Fitch is a career financial services executive with a multi-decade focus on power and infrastructure. She is a retired partner of the investment bank PJT Partners and continues as a senior advisor. Before investment banking, she spent 15 years as an equity analyst and portfolio manager at TIAA and Artisan Partners. She is currently a non-executive director of the utilities CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) and EDP Renewables (LIS: EDPR), and is the senior independent director of fund manager Man Group plc (LON: EMG), where she also chairs the Remuneration Committee. Fitch is a past board chair of Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and a member of the Investment Committee of the Tate Board of Trustees in London. She spent a year abroad at The American University in Cairo in 1991 and graduated with a BA in Arabic and Middle East Studies and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.