Paul Irving is a corporate and nonprofit director and a respected figure in business, health, philanthropy and academia. Paul provides strategic guidance to leaders across the health ecosystem seeking to capitalize on opportunities for investment and innovation in the longevity economy and to address the challenges of population aging across America and the world.

He remains actively involved as a senior advisor at the Milken Institute, where he previously served as president and founding chair of its Center for the Future of Aging. Paul served as CEO and as a corporate partner at Manatt for many years representing public and private companies and high-profile investors in complex merger, acquisition and capital markets transactions and in a wide range of business, governance and regulatory matters. Paul left the Firm in 2010 to accept an Advanced Leadership Fellowship at Harvard University.

Today, as one of the country’s leading authorities on the longevity economy, Paul advises entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, companies and policymakers on the evolving health landscape and the promise and potential of healthy longevity. In addition to his service at Manatt and the Milken Institute, Paul is a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

Paul is a member of boards, committees and councils for a range of prominent companies and academic institutions. He is a director and chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of East West Bancorp, Inc., and a member of the International Strategic Committee of the Quadrivio Group Silver Economy Fund. He is also chair emeritus and a member of the board of CoGenerate and serves on the Global Advisory Council of the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, the Board of Councilors of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the Advisory Board of WorkingNation. Paul has served on the National Academy of Medicine Global Commission on Healthy Longevity and the Bipartisan Policy Center Senior Health and Housing Task Force, and as a participant in the 2015 White House Conference on Aging. He frequently contributes to The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, PBS Next Avenue and Forbes.