As the chief investment officer at Brookings, Catherine Piez is responsible for managing the Institution’s endowment. She works with the Investment Committee of the Board to set the portfolio’s long-term investment strategy and leads an internal team who conducts external manager research and oversees daily investment operations. Prior to joining Brookings in 2006, Catherine was a research consultant and managing director in the marketable manager group at Cambridge Associates. In that role she met and analyzed hundreds of asset managers and published white papers for the firm’s clients on assets under management, quantitative investment, and indexing. Raised overseas, Catherine learned t