Mike Pyle is a Senior Managing Director at BlackRock and the Deputy Head of BlackRock’s Portfolio Management Group (PMG), which spans active systematic and discretionary investment strategies across liquid asset classes. Mike directly oversees BlackRock’s hedge funds platform, its fundamental equities franchise, and the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). Mike is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC).  
 
Before rejoining the firm in 2024 after senior roles in the White House, Mike previously worked at BlackRock from 2014 to 2021, culminating as the firm’s Global Chief Investment Strategist. Earlier, he had been the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock’s Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions platform as well as a portfolio manager and the head of macroeconomic research on the firm’s Global Tactical Asset Allocation team.  
 
Mike has served extensively in the U.S. government. From 2022 to 2024, Mike was the U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics, leading the U.S. government’s international economic agenda and serving as President Biden’s personal representative to the G7, G20, and APEC summits—shaping policy on issues including Russia’s war against Ukraine; U.S.-China relations; energy security, trade and investment; and advanced technology and AI. Mike was also Chief Economic Advisor to Vice President Harris and earlier had been a Special Assistant for Economic Policy to President Obama in addition to holding other senior roles in the Obama White House and Treasury Department from 2009 to 2013.  
 
Mike graduated summa cum laude in economics from Dartmouth College, where he was class salutatorian and recipient of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize as the top economics graduate. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, where he studied economics and law as a Keasbey Scholar. He is a CFA charterholder.
 
Mike is originally from Niantic, Illinois, a town of 600 people in Central Illinois, and attended Niantic public schools from K-12. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Chloe Schama, an editor at Vogue, and their four children.