Diane Garnick

Garnick began her career at Deloitte and Touche LLP. Her projects entailed derivatives product control for clients such as Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch. While she was on a project engagement at Merrill Lynch, she was hired to work in Merrill Lynch's Equity Derivatives Research team. In 2001, she joined State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) one of the world's largest passive asset management firms as their Chief Investment Strategist. Garnick later became the Chief Investment Strategist at Invesco, one of the world's largest active asset management firms. Currently she is the Chief Income Strategist at TIAA, one of the largest retirement providers.

Garnick was born in New York. She was identified as top scholar throughout the United States as a math and science champion in the early 1970s. She was awarded the Presidential Medal in Science in 1980. She has been an investment strategist at several Wall Street firms and three Fortune 100 companies. Her research on retirement strategies have been recognized by academic institutions through Social Science Research Network for original insights into the crisis in retirement income for broad populations including the US and other developed nations.

Diane Garnick (born January 19, 1967) is an American investment manager. Diane is the Chief Income Strategist at TIAA and serves on the Board of the CFA Institute Research Foundation.