Gerry Parsky

Appointed in 1996 to a twelve-year term as regent of the University of California, Parsky was elected unanimously by his peers to serve as their chairman. Parsky oversaw the regents' governance of the university, including oversight and negotiations on behalf of the U.S. nuclear labs at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, student admissions, expansion of the U.C. Merced campus, as well as budget and fiscal issues, including pension plans for the faculty and staff. Parsky retired as a Regent in 2008, and received a resolution from the Regents.

Parsky also served as a charter trustee of Princeton University from 1981 to 1991; serves as a trustee of the Salk Institute; and the advisory council of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

After working for three years for a Wall Street law firm, he was recruited to the United States Department of the Treasury in 1971. He served in various positions from 1971 to 1974 in the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Energy Office.

From 1974 until 1977 he served as assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, responsible for capital markets policy; all of the Treasury Department's international affairs, including trade policy; international monetary policy; investment and energy policy; relations with industrial and developing countries; and U.S. policy relating to the international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

From 1977 until 1992, Parsky was affiliated with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he was a senior partner and a member of the executive and management committees. In 1992, Parsky founded Aurora Capital Group.

Parsky and his family have established the Parsky Family Scholarship at Princeton University; the Parsky Family Scholarship at UCLA's Anderson School of Business and Management and the Parsky Family Scholarship at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.