Corporate Governance

Ellen V. Futter is president of the Markle Foundation. She previously served as president of the American Museum of Natural History from November 1993 through March 15, 2023, when she was elected president emerita. Previously, Ms. Futter served as the president of Barnard College and prior to that was a corporate attorney at the law firm of Milbank LLP (formerly known as Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy). She also served as the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was on the Board of Trustees and several committees for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc. She is a trustee of the Brookings Institution, where she chairs the Nominations and Governance Committee and is a member of the board’s Executive Committee; a governing trustee at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she serves as a member of the Joint Nominating and Governance Committee and as a trustee of the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School; and a trustee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she serves on the Nominating, Education, and Facilities committees. She is also an ex officio director of New York City Tourism and Conventions and previously served as a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. Ms. Futter graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Barnard College and earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School.