Roger W. Ferguson Jr. (born October 28, 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is an American business analyst, who was Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1999 to 2006, and has filled in as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA) since April, 2008. In June, 2016, Alphabet Inc. designated Roger W. Ferguson Jr. to its top managerial staff. 

Ferguson got a B.A. in financial matters magna cum laude in 1973, a J.D. cum laude in 1979, and a Ph.D. in financial aspects in 1981, all from Harvard University. From 1973 to 1974, he went to Pembroke College at Cambridge University on a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship. In 2004 Ferguson was chosen for an Honorary Fellowship there. 

Moreover, he has privileged degrees from Lincoln College (Illinois),Webster University, Washington and Jefferson College, Michigan State University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Georgetown University, Metropolitan College of New York, Wabash College, Colby College, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Sewanee: The University of the South, American University, Hofstra University and The University of Michigan. 

In 2016, Ferguson got the Harvard Medal, granted every year by the Harvard Alumni Association for administration to Harvard. 

In 2019, Ferguson got the Harvard Centennial Medal. The Centennial Medal is the most noteworthy honor offered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and is granted for "commitments to society as they have risen up out of one's alumni training at Harvard". The reference gave the Medal checked on Ferguson's accomplishments and included reflections from Douglas Elmendorf, Drew Faust and Larry Summers. 

Ferguson filled in as co-administrator of the Group of 30 examination bunch that distributed "Banking Conduct and Culture: A Call for Sustained and Comprehensive Reform". Following two past reports, the examination develops the part of lead and culture in the administration of the world's biggest budgetary foundations. The report recognizes deficiencies yet in addition great practice in advancing a solid financial culture, making a progression of proposals that can be drawn upon by pioneers as they try to address culture in their organizations. The examination was delivered July, 2015. 

Somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2012, Ferguson co-led a National Research Council board on the Long-Run Macro-Economic Effects of the Aging U.S. Populace. The last report was given in September, 2012, under the title, "Maturing and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population".