Robert Pozen
Chairman, MFS Investment Management
Robert C. Pozen is Chairman of MFS Investment Management, which manages more than $200 billion in assets for more than five million investors worldwide. He was named to his current position in February 2004. In addition to this role, in the summer of 2007, Mr. Pozen was named as Chairman of the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting.
Mr. Pozen is an independent director of Medtronics and BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). In both companies, he has served as a member of the Audit Committee. In addition, he is involved in various non-profit organizations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Commonwealth Fund. He was recently elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Pozen was formerly vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and president of Fidelity Management & Research Company, the investment advisor to the Fidelity mutual funds. While previously serving as managing director and general counsel of Fidelity Investments, he created Fidelity's Charitable Gift Fund and launched Fidelity's entry into the Japanese mutual fund business.
Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Pozen served as Associate General Counsel for the SEC, and taught law and economics at New York University.
During 2002 and 2003, Mr. Pozen was the John Olin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, teaching interdisciplinary courses focused on corporate governance and financial institutions. In 2003, he served as Secretary of Economic Affairs for Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, helping to close the state's large budget gap and re-organize its functions in business and technology, labor and workforce training, and consumer affairs.
Mr. Pozen also served on President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security in late 2001 and 2002. He later developed a detailed proposal to restore solvency to Social Security, known as progressive indexing, that grows benefits more slowly for higher earners while maintaining scheduled benefits for low earners.
