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Margaret (Peggy) Foran

Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President & Corporate Secretary

Prudential Financial, Inc.

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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 Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee. From December 2010 through May 2020, she served on the Board of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, where during her tenure, she served as Chair of its Sustainability and Shareholder Engagement Committee, Compensation Committee and Governance Committee. Ms. Foran previously served on the Board of The MONY Group and MONY Life Insurance Company, The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group (SEIAG), the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance’s Advisory Board and on Catalyst’s Advisory Board.

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, a member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Governance Counsel, a member of the NACD’s Nominating and Governance Committee Chair Advisory Council and a member of the Gupta Governance Institute’s Advisory Board at Drexel University.

Ms. Foran received her B.A., magna cum laude, and J. D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame, where she serves on the law school’s Advisory Committee. She is admitted to the New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey (In-house) Bars. Additionally, Ms. Foran is NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Directorship Certified™, the recipient of the International Corporate Governance’s (ICGN) Lifetime Achievement Award in March 2024 and received a certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management for completing their Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy program.