 Mr Steve Cowan,
Managing Director PCG International LLC Mr. Cowan is a founder of PCGI, a Washington, DC, based investment manager focused on partnership and co-investment in select private equity markets outside of the United States.
With more than US$1 billion under management, PCGI has almost 100 years of collective experience investing in international private equity markets. PCGI’s team has also advised notable US public pensions and sovereign entities with respect to markets as diverse as Japan, China, India, Central Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and Israel.
Prior to PCGI, Mr. Cowan served at Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), most recently as a Director in the Investment Funds Department, where he was responsible for structuring new funds, designing and implementing the program’s asset allocation plans, selecting managers, and overseeing a large portion of the $3.5 billion investment funds program. Mr. Cowan also helped design OPIC’s groundbreaking capital markets insurance product. Prior to his tenure at OPIC, Mr. Cowan was an attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law, and as an advisor to the governments of Colombia and Canada with respect to developing private equity programs. Mr. Cowan received his AB (magna cum laude and with honors) in Political Science and Development Studies from Brown University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and, during college, participated in the Yale-in-China program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.Appearing: Conference Day Two: Wednesday, 17 March 2010 9.15am Institutional Investors Conclave
Confronting manager selection, corporate governance, shareholder activism
and asset-liability mismatches in crafting scalable risk-return models for the
global flow of institutional money and asset allocation splits
Mr Steve Cowan, (Confirmed) Managing Director, PCG International LLC Head of Investment, Hermes Pensions Management Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Investments, Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company Chief Global Strategist, Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Company Limited Head of Portfolio Advisory, Asia Pacific, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
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