Peter Aldrich
International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Experience
Peter C. Aldrich is a life long entrepreneur and educator. He loves to discover new ideas and build teams to explore the benefits of those musings. His current activities center on seed capital and international capital formation. Mr. Aldrich was a pioneer in the investment of American pension capital into real estate. He was the founder of the Pension Real Estate Association, of The Boston Company Real Estate Counsel, Inc., and with Tom Eastman and Mark Waltch, of Aldrich Eastman Waltch, L.P. (now known as AEW Capital Management), one of the nation’s largest property investment advisory firms. He was graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy (of which he was a longtime Trustee), from Harvard College and from its Business School. (He served on Harvard’s Visiting Committee on University Resources). He is a past faculty member of the Yale School of Organization and Management and of the Harvard Business School. He is also a Trustee of Bard College, a Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Trustee of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and of the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, and formerly a Governor of the Jerome S. Levy Economics Institute, and a past Trustee of Simon’s Rock, ("the Early College"), of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and of the Shady Hill School.
Mr. Aldrich was founder and chairman of AEGIS, LLC (formerly AEW International), which had affiliate investment companies in Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. He was the Co-Chairman of the Sichuan Foreign Investment Advisory Board and was formerly a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. More importantly, Peter is retired and enjoys time with his children, swimming, fly-fishing, baseball, motorcycling, water coloring, ancient Greek pottery, golf, American painting, astronomy, model trains and any good book, good company, or good friend
