Peter Beshar

• Executive Vice-President and General Counsel
  Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC)

1984, graduate, Yale; 1989, graduate, Harvard Law School. Former: Clerk, US District Court; Member, NY State Attorney-General's Task Force on Illegal Guns; Special Assistant, peace negotiations over former Yugoslavia. 1995-2004, Litigation Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; 2004, joined Marsh & McLennan Companies as General Counsel; since 2006, current position. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; volunteer executive, Mayor Bloomberg's Greater New York initiative. Recipient of awards and honours.