Peter J. Taylor is president of ECMC Foundation, and served on the Board of Trustees for the Getty Trust from 2005 to 2017. Mr. Taylor grew up in Los Angeles, California, and attended University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1970s. He is a graduate of the Coro Fellowship Program and completed his master’s degree at Claremont Graduate School. Taylor then worked as legislative staff for California Assemblyman Mike Roos. He then transitioned to finance and worked for the Lehman Brothers until the 2008 Recession. Taylor worked as the CFO of the University of California from 2009 to 2014, and then joined ECMC Foundation in 2014. In addition to the Getty Trust, Taylor has served on the boards of the James Irvine Foundation, the UCLA Alumni Association, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and has been a member of the California State University System Board of Trustees since 2015. He was previously Alumni Representative on the University of California Board of Regents, and was chair of the UCLA African American Admissions and Retention Task Force. In this interview, Taylor discusses his early life and education; training with the Coro Foundation; his legislative work for California Assemblyman Mike Roos; working for Lehman Brothers; challenges as CFO of the University of California System after the 2008 Recession; becoming president of ECMC Foundation; reasons for joining boards of organizations; joining the Getty Board of Trustees in 2005 and serving during a period of financial, legal, and managerial difficulties; the challenges and successes of the Getty Trust; and continuing involvement with the Getty Trust after leaving the Board of Trustees in 2017.