Rebecca Patterson is Chief Investment Officer at Bessemer Trust, managing more than $70 billion worth of high net worth family assets and serving as a member of the firm’s management committee. Prior to joining Bessemer, Rebecca worked at J.P. Morgan, as Chief Markets Strategist for Asset Management, as Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Commodities for the Private Bank, and as an Investment Banking Research Analyst, based in New York, London and Singapore where she helped central banks and sovereign wealth funds, other institutional clients and high-net-worth families. Prior to J.P. Morgan, she was a journalist in the U.S. and Europe covering financial markets and politics.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Federal Reserve’s Investor Advisory Committee, the Economic Club of New York, and chairs the University of Florida Investment Corporation’s Advisory Board. She is also a board member of Global Kids and a member of the Economic Leadership Council of the Peterson Institute. Additionally, Rebecca is a regular CNBC contributor and is widely quoted in the financial press. American Banker has named Rebecca one of “The 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance” for the past five consecutive years. Rebecca earned an M.B.A. from New York University, an M.A. in international economics from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida. Rebecca lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
