Pamela Chan

Pam Chan, Managing Director, is Chief Investment Officer and Head of Direct Private Opportunities (DPO) at BlackRock.She is Chair of the DPO Investment Committee and Chair for the BlackRock Impact Opportunities Fund Internal Investment Committee as well as a former voting member of the Real Estate Debt and Diversified Private Debt Investment Committees. She is and has also been a member of BlackRock's firmwide Global Operating Committee, the Alternatives Executive Committee, BlackRock's Global DEI Steering Committee and the BIO Executive Investment Committee. Her service with the firm began in 2012. She co-founded Alternative Solutions in 2013.Prior to becoming CIO of that group, she served as a senior portfolio manager and primary deputy to the CIO.Prior to joining BlackRock,she worked as a senior research analyst for the Financial Stability Board, as a Senior Investment Associate at Bridgewater and as a member of the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co.She was recognized in 2020 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Young Global Leader and presented at Davos in 2022. She is a member of the WEF's Women in Finance community and was appointed to the Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing.She was named as a Women of Influence in Private Markets in 2022 by PEI Media.She currently co-chairs the Harvard College Schools and Scholarship Committee of New York City and has previously served on the Board of the Harvard Club of New York Foundation and the Harvard Business School (HBS) Alumni Board. She is a member of the Board for the HBS Club of New York. She serves on the Board of Macro Media, Inc. She has previously served as a Board member for Forbright, Inc. and Home Partners of America. She is also a member of YPO, Chief and Extraordinary Women on Boards.She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a joint concentration in Philosophy and Government and, earned an MBA with high honors from Harvard Business School.