Margaret (Peggy) Foran

Chief Governance Officer, SVP & Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial; Director, Occidental Petroleum

Ms. Foran is Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary of Prudential Financial, Inc.

She has been a corporate governance leader throughout her career at Sara Lee Corporation, Pfizer, Inc. and J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.  Ms. Foran is a director on the Board of Orion Group Holdings, Inc. and serves as the Chairperson of the Compensation Committee and is also a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.  From December 2010 through May 2020, Ms. Foran served on the Board of Directors of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation.  During her Board tenure, Ms. Foran served as Chairperson of its Sustainability and Shareholder Engagement Committee, Compensation Committee and Governance Committee. Ms. Foran previously served on the Board of Directors of The MONY Group and MONY Life Insurance Company.

Ms. Foran currently serves as an active member of many influential advisory boards including,   co-chair on the Board of Directors of the Council of Institutional Investors, member of Board of Trustees of the American College of Governance Counsel, liaison to the American Bar Association’s Commission on Diversity and the Corporate Law Committee, Catalyst’s Advisory Board, the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance’s Advisory Board, NACD’s Nominating and Governance Committee Chair Advisory Council, and, the Society for Corporate Governance’s Environmental & Social Working Group, Executive Director of Prudential’s Sustainability Council, and Executive Sponsor of Prudential’s ADAPT initiative.

Ms. Foran received her B.A., magna cum laude, and J. D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame.


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