Phil Angelides

Phil Angelides has earned national acclaim as an effective public and private sector leader, with an impressive record of advancing financial reform and corporate responsibility and forging innovative solutions to create jobs and economic progress. He has won widespread praise for his efforts to build the new green economy and for his groundbreaking work in sustainable development.

Angelides recently served as chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a 10-member bipartisan panel created by federal law and charged with conducting the nation’s official inquiry into the causes of the financial and economic crisis. The report made the New York Times and Washington Post best-seller lists, and The New York Review of Books hailed it as “the most comprehensive indictment of the American financial failure that has yet been made” and “the definitive history of this period.” In 2010, Angelides was named by Worth magazine as seventh among the 100 most powerful people in global finance.

Angelides is currently president of Riverview Capital Investments, which focuses on clean energy projects and sustainable urban development. From 1999 to 2007, he served as California’s state treasurer. The Associated Press reported that he made “the sleepy treasurer’s office a policy powerhouse,” and The Sacramento Bee praised him as “the most effective and dynamic state treasurer in a generation.” He was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2006. Angelides, 59, is a graduate of Harvard University and a Coro Foundation Fellow.