Andrew Lee is Chief of Staff, Office of the President, Aetna Inc.  Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving more than 36 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care.

As a member of Aetna President Mark Bertolini's senior team, Mr. Lee is responsible for driving the efficacy of management processes in Aetna's Business Operations and facilitating the development and implementation of a differentiated business strategy.  In addition to his chief of staff duties, Mr. Lee is the co-executive sponsor for ANative, Aetna's employee resource group dedicated to American Indian and Alaska Native issues.  Prior to assuming his chief of staff role in February 2009, Mr. Lee led Aetna's Office of Public Policy, which works at the intersection of public policy and business opportunity and seeks to advance the company's thought leadership on health policy issues of national importance.

Prior to joining Aetna in 2005, Mr. Lee served as executive director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, a research and service institution at the Harvard Kennedy School that works on economic and social development among American Indian nations.  While at the Harvard Project, he founded Honoring Nations, a national awards program that identifies, celebrates, and shares information about outstanding tribal government programs.  From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Lee worked in the Governance and Civil Society unit of the Ford Foundation's Peace and Social Justice Program.

Mr. Lee serves on a number of national boards.  He is the vice-chairman of the Smithsonian's Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, and is a member of the board of governors for the Harvard Project's Honoring Nations tribal governance awards program.  He also serves on the tribal policy board for Portland State University's Institute of Tribal Government and the on the national advisory council for a think tank associated with the National Congress of American Indians.  Mr. Lee co-authored The State of the Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination, published by Oxford University Press in 2008, and he also co-authored a chapter on effective social service delivery in Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2007.  Mr. Lee has been recognized for his leadership in American Indian Affairs: In 1999, Americans for Indian Opportunity selected Mr. Lee to be an "American Indian Ambassador;" in 2001 he testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs; and in 2004 USA Weekend magazine profiled him as one of seven "Native American Standouts" nationwide.

Mr. Lee received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College and a master degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he was a Christian A. Johnson Native American fellow and a Woodrow Wilson fellow in public policy and international affairs.