Don Kanak

DIRECTOR

Don Kanak is the retired (Oct 31, 2022) Chairman of Prudential Insurance Growth Markets and Chairman of Prudence Foundation, the community investment arm of Prudential plc. He is an independent non-executive director of Manulife, and also serves as Chairman of the Board of the PreachFor Foundation.

Don has been an active participant with The Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS) for over twenty years.
through our symposia events and as a Senior Fellow since 2007. His research and writing has focused on climate change policy, including solutions for reducing deforestation, and financial frameworks for achieving energy transition. He has also written on capital market development in emerging economies.

Mr. Kanak is based in the Seattle area. He lived and worked in Asia for over 35 years. From 2008 to January 2016, Mr. Kanak served as Chairman of Prudential Corporation Asia and from 2012 to October 2020 as Chairman of Eastspring Investments, Prudential’s Asia focused asset management business. From 1992 to January 2006, he served in senior executive positions at American International Group (AIG), ultimately as Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of AIG. In 2011-12, Mr. Kanak chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Insurance and Asset Management. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Don holds a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School (1980) and an M.Litt in Management Studies from University of Oxford (U.K.) (1989), a B.A. with highest honors in economics (1975) from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the CLU and the ChFC designations from the American College.