Corporate Governance

Ellen V. Futter served as president of the American Museum of Natural History from November 1993 through March 15, 2023, when she was elected president emerita. She is the interim president of the Markle Foundation and senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. 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. Ms. Futter is a trustee of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc., a director of Consolidated Edison Inc. and a member of Consolidated Edison’s board’s Executive Committee and its Safety Environment, Operations and Sustainability Committee. She is also a trustee of the Brookings Institution, where she chairs the Nominations and Governance Committee; a member of the Brookings Institution’s 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; a trustee of the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School; a trustee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she serves on the Nominating, Education, and Compensation Review and Advisory committees; and an ex officio director of New York City Tourism and Conventions. Ms. Futter graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Barnard College and earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School.