Ellen Futter

Ellen Victoria Futter is President of The John & Mary R.
Markle Foundation, Inc. since 2024.
She is President & Trustee of The American Museum of Natural History since 2010.
She serves as Independent Director at Evercore, Inc. since 2018.
She is Trustee at Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. since 1989.
She holds director positions at NYC & Co., Inc., American Ditchley Foundation, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Investment Management), and is Trustee at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Brookings Institution, Con Edison Co., and Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Science.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. Former roles include Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1988 to 1993; Director at American International Group, Inc. from 1999 to 2008; Director at Bristol Myers Squibb Co. in 2005; Director at Viacom, Inc. from 2005 to 2006 and again from 2006 to 2007; Independent Director at Consolidated Edison, Inc. from 1997 to 2025; Independent Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from 2011 to 2013; Director at J.P.
Morgan & Co., Inc. (Old) from 1997 to 2000; Trustee at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Inc. in 2023; Attorney at Milbank LLP; and President of Barnard College.
Education includes an undergraduate degree from Barnard College conferred in 1971 and a graduate degree from Columbia Law School conferred in 1974.