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Peter D. Hancock is the former president and chief executive officer (CEO) of AIG. He resigned his position of president on March 9, 2017.
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Biography
Hancock was born in London, but raised in Hong Kong. He returned to the UK to attend Oxford University, where he received a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.
Career
Hancock has spent his entire career in financial services, including 20 years at J.P. Morgan, where he founded the Global Derivatives Group in 1991. He left J.P. Morgan in 2000 after serving as both chief financial officer and chief risk officer when the company merged with Chase Manhattan Bank. He then started a financial advisory firm with other J.P. Morgan alumni, before being recruited by KeyCorp during the financial crisis in 2008, where he became vice-chairman.
In 2010, at the recommendation of officials at PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Hancock was hired on as executive vice-president of Finance, Risk and Investments at AIG by the then-CEO, Bob Benmosche.
Honors
Hancock is a member of the Board of the Japan Society, as well as a member of the International Advisory Board of BritishAmerican Business. He is also a William Pitt Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.