Libby George, Director of Investments, North Carolina State University

Libby George is currently the Director of Investments at North Carolina State University accumulating over 30 years of experience in investment management, corporate, educational, and financial accounting.  Libby currently manages five portfolios at NC State with assets in excess of $1.6 billion in short term, intermediate term, charitable giving, traditional long-term endowment assets as well as long-term endowment assets invested in a sustainable responsible and impactful manner. 

Ms. George is currently on the editorial committee of The Investment Institute, member of the John Rex Endowment Board, member of the CAP Trust/UNC 403B Investment Committee, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Intentional Endowments Network.  Ms. George previously served on the State of North Carolina’s Supplemental Retirement Board of Trustees as appointed by Governor Beverly Perdue in July 2009 and was the Chair of the Investment Subcommittee of the Supplemental Retirement Board. 

Libby was a NC State University Award for Excellence Nominee in 1991, received the Pride of the Wolfpack Award in 2001, named one of the 125 Transformational Women of NC State in 2013, and in 2019, received the Rodney H. Adams Endowment Management Award from NACUBO (National Association of College and Business Officers) for outstanding individual contributions to professional development activities related to University Endowment and Investment Management, as well as being named one of the Top 30 Investors in Next-Generation leading Endowments by Trusted Insight.

Libby received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Auburn University and was an All-American NCAA athlete in Swimming for the Auburn Tigers.  She became a Certified Public Accountant in 1992.