Melissa Waller

Ms Waller has over 30 years of experience as a senior finance executive and is President for the AIF Institute, providing essential education, research and resources to investors and investment firms globally with over US$50 trillion assets under management. She is the former Deputy Treasurer and Chief of Staff for the North Carolina Department of State Treasury, where she successfully oversaw Department strategic planning, operations, and public policy implementation, along with a staff of more than 400 employees, including the North Carolina Retirement Systems, the pension fund for the state and the tenth largest public pension fund in the United States, with assets in excess of US$90 billion. She has served as Chair of the Departments Corporate Governance Committee, as well as on the Council of Institutional Investors Board of Directors and the Governors Board of Innovation for the North Carolina University System. She currently serves as Executive Program Director for the National Institute of Public Finance, as well as Director of Public and Private Partnerships for the Kenan Institute. She is Chair of the Governance Committee.