Han Yik is the Senior Advisor to the Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS). As a member of NYSTRS’ Executive Leadership team, he advises the ED/CIO on investments, public policy, global initiatives and corporate governance. In addition, Han is building and leading NYSTRS’ initiatives on investor stewardship and sustainability and its integration and implementation across the NYSTRS investment portfolio.

Han was formerly the Head of Institutional Investors at the World Economic Forum, where he worked with the senior leadership of the world's largest asset owners and top government officials on issues around long-term investing as well as providing strategic guidance on initiatives involving public-private cooperation. He led the Forum’s initiative on the global pension crisis, with his articles and reports receiving extensive press coverage from media outlets such as Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Barron’s and others. In addition, he has been a keynote speaker at various global conferences, including the CIE Chairs & CEOs Symposium in Sydney, the Singapore Fintech Festival, the Global Asset Owner Series from the CFA Society of New York, the Asia Risk Congress, the Salesforce World Tour and CROSAPF and has led private roundtables for asset owners and asset managers at the World Economic Forum Annual

Meeting in Davos.

Han began his career as an actuarial consultant at Towers Perrin and Mercer, before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a Senior Institutional Portfolio Strategist and Head of Institutional Thought Leadership, where he managed $2 billion in assets as an OCIO for institutional clients. Han earned his B.S. in Applied Mathematics with a concentration in Operations Research from Yale University, where he won the Benjamin F. Barge Prize for Excellence in Mathematics. Han formerly served as a board member for Materials for the Arts, a local non-profit devoted to creative recycling and reuse of donated materials as arts materials for underserved public schools in New York City.