Stephen Peel
Stephen Peel (born 29 December 1965) is a British businessman, private equity investor and philanthropist who, until 2014, was one of the senior partners at the global private equity firm TPG Capital.[1]. Stephen has recently founded his own private equity firm, Novalpina Capital. Outside of his business interests, he is the founder of SMP Policy Innovation Ltd, a not-for-profit policy organization aiming to promote, design and assist advanced government policy.
Career
Peel worked at Goldman Sachs from 1989, founded TPG's European operations in 1997, ran their Russian and Eastern European operations from 2006 and co-headed the Asia operations from 2009-2013.[2] He also co-founded the philanthropic Private Equity Foundation (now Impetus PEF) and sits on the board of Lenta Limited.[3]
Stephen is a Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University where he is involved in a project developing a new policy framework for low-income country industrialization and is on the Advisory Council of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University[4].
He serves on the boards of Global Witness, Tujenge Africa Foundation an educational establishment in Burundi, and Best for Britain, an organisation campaigning for a rethink of Brexit. Stephen currently chairs the Advisory Board at the Open Contracting Partnership, is a British member of the Trilateral Commission, a Commissioner on the IPPR’s Commission on Social Justice, a member of the Global Partners Council of The Institute for New Economic Thinking[5], sits on the advisory board of the Institute for State Effectiveness and on the boards of Right to Play Asia and the Tate International Council.
Personal life
Peel studied at Downing College, Cambridge University where he is now a Wilkins Fellow. In 2015 he did an MAS at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University.[4] He represented Great Britain in rowing at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. His wife, Yana Peel, is the CEO of the Serpentine Galleries in London.
References
- ^ "Top TPG Dealmaker Stephen Peel to Leave Firm". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "TPG’s Dattels Named Co-Head of Asia as Stephen Peel Steps Down". Bloomberg Business.
- ^ "Stephen Peel Director".
- ^ a b "Yale - Graduate Students".
- ^ "Stephen Peel | Institute for New Economic Thinking".