Diana Farrell

Diana Farrell

Independent Director, eBay; Trustee, Urban Institute; Trustee, National Bureau of Economic Research; Member of National Academy of Sciences CNSTAT; Founding and former Chief Executive Officer and President, JPMorgan Chase Institute, Washington; former Deputy Director, National Economic Council, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; former Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co and former head of McKinsey Global Institute

Diana Farrell is an independent director and trustee of various organizations, including eBay, Urban Institute, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the National Academies of Sciences’ Committee on National Statistics.  She was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the JPMorgan Chase Institute, where she created a legacy of producing and publishing unique data analyses and insights leveraging the bank’s own transactions data. Previously, Diana was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she served on the Partner’s Evaluation committee, and was the founder and Global Head of the McKinsey Center for Government as well as the Global Head of the McKinsey Global Institute.  At various points in her McKinsey career, she was a leader in the Public Sector, the Financial Institutions Sector, and the Strategy practice.  Additionally, Diana served in the White House as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President on Economic Policy for over two years. Diana is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen World Economy Group, the Aspen Strategy Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bretton Woods Committee. Diana holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and has a B.A. from Wesleyan University, from where she was awarded a Distinguished Alumna award.