Eric Vaang

Managing Director, Public Equities and Alpha Strategies Investments
Eric Vaang

Eric Vaang is the Managing Director, International, in the Foundation’s Investment Department.

His primary responsibilities include investment manager selection and supervision, portfolio analysis, and global market research for non-U.S. public equities.

Before joining the Foundation, Vaang was an Investment Consultant at Mercer Investment Consulting where he performed quantitative and qualitative analysis on investment managers and their strategies for a variety of institutional clients. Prior to this, Vaang was a portfolio manager in Northern Trust’s Quantitative Management group where he managed passive and enhanced equity portfolios. Vaang began his career as a Child Care Worker for abused and neglected children in Addison, Illinois.

Vaang earned his Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and earned his Master of Business Administration at the University of Chicago with concentrations in analytic finance, econometrics, and international business. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and member of the CFA Society of Chicago.