Peter D. Hancock is the former president and chief executive officer (CEO) of AIG.

[1][2] Hancock has spent his entire career in financial services, including 20 years at J.P. Morgan, where he founded the Global Derivatives Group in 1991.

[3][4] In 2010, at the recommendation of officials at PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Hancock was hired on as executive vice-president of Finance, Risk and Investments at AIG by the then-CEO, Bob Benmosche.

[3][5] Hancock served as chief executive officer of AIG from 1 September 2014 to 9 March 2017.

[6] AIG paid $67.3 million to its chief executive officers in 2017, with part of the payment going to Hancock who resigned under pressure from activist investors as his turnaround plan suffered setbacks.