Stephen Peel
Stephen Peel
Stephen Peel is the founder of SMP Policy Innovation Limited, a non-for-profit organization aiming to promote, design and assist advanced government policy. Mr. Peel now dedicates himself to policy and philanthropic activities after recently stepping down from a successful 25-year career in the global private equity industry. From 1997 to 2014, Mr. Peel was a managing partner at one of the world’s largest global private investment firms, TPG Capital, most recently heading up the firm’s activities across Asia and Eastern Europe. He was one of the early partners of TPG Capital, a founder of its European office in 1997, head of Europe from 1997 to 2008, and a member of its management and investment committees. He was part of the senior leadership team that grew the firm from some $3 billion of assets under management to over $60 billion. During his investment career, he had experience investing, managing, growing and turning around substantial businesses in over 15 different countries including the UK, Germany, Spain, Norway, Finland, the Baltics, China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Turkey and Russia. Prior to TPG Capital, Mr. Peel was in the Principal Investment Area of Goldman Sachs from 1989 to 1997. Mr. Peel received his BA and MA from Cambridge University in 1987 and represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games in 1988. He received a Master of Advanced Studies from the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University in 2015. Mr. Peel serves or has served on Boards of Directors including: China Grand Automotive Services Co., Ltd., HCP Holdings, Inc., Strauss Coffee B.V., FESCO Transportation Group, Grohe AG, Lenta Limited, Mey Alkollü Içkiler, Punch Taverns, Spirit Group Limited, Findexa Limited and Pivovarni Ivana Taranova. He is on the Board of Global Witness, on the Global Partners Council of the economic think tank Institute of New Economic Thinking, on the Advisory Board for the Institute of State Effectiveness, on the Advisory Board of the Open Contracting Partnership, on the Jackson Institute’s Advisory Council at Yale University, on the Asian Board of Right to Play, and a founder and former trustee of the Private Equity Foundation.
