Susan Tannehill Joins Board of John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy

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Susan Tannehill Joins Board of John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy

Susan Tannehill

RALEIGH, April 3, 2013 – Susan Tannehill has joined the board of directors of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. Tannehill is senior managing director of TIAA-CREF Trust Company located in Charlotte, N.C.

Tannehill has more than 35 years of portfolio management experience, specializing in global fixed-income and active currency management. She has an A.B. in Economics from Duke University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Fordham University. Tannehill joined TIAA-CREF in 2005. Previously, she worked as worked as Head of Investments at American Express Bank and as Regional Director at New England PNC Advisors

In addition to Susan Tannehill, the Pope Center’s board members are: Arch T. Allen, chairman, a partner with Allen, Moore & Rogers, LLP; J. Edgar Broyhill, president and managing director of the Broyhill Group; Representative Virginia Foxx, U.S. congressional representative from North Carolina’s Fifth District; John M. Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation; Joseph P. Lindsley Sr., president of Quantitative Process, L.L.C. in Charlotte; Representative Tim Moore, North Carolina representative from Cleveland County; James G. Martin, former North Carolina governor and chemistry professor at Wingate University, David W. Riggs, Vice President of Operations and Programs at John William Pope Foundation, and John W. (Jack) Sommer, Knight Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, promotes excellence in higher education, addressing problems such as rising costs, ideological bias on campus, slipping academic standards, and the loss of a core curriculum.

For more information about the Pope Center, visit popecenter.org.

 

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