ZAHRA AGA KHAN AB ’94

France | Secretariat of the Aga Khan

Princess Zahra Aga Khan AB ’94 is a member of the board of directors of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of development agencies that work to improve the welfare and prospects of people in over 30 countries around the world, particularly in Asia and Africa. She has policy and management responsibility for the health, education, and planning and building services companies of the AKDN and their institutions, working in 12 countries in the developing world. She is also involved in policy and strategy matters relating to the other development institutions of the AKDN.

Princess Zahra has worked within the AKDN since graduating from Harvard College in 1994. She is a trustee of the Aga Khan University, sits on the board of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance, and works with various institutions supported by the Ismaili Muslim community in the areas of social and economic development.

Princess Zahra attended Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland and received an AB cum laude in development studies from Harvard College. She also completed a four-month program at Massachusetts General Hospital to enhance her understanding of health care systems and the delivery of advanced medical care, as well as an executive finance course at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

TERESITA ALVAREZ-BJELLAND AB ’76, MBA ’79

Norway | Consultant

Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland AB ’76, MBA ’79 is an independent consultant and professional board member residing in Oslo, Norway. Her interests are specifically focused on education, cultural exchange, and human rights. She established and runs a nonprofit counseling bureau to advise students applying to universities in the U.K. and U.S. Her affiliations include tenures on the boards of directors of the Norwegian American Foundation in Oslo and Freedom Now in Washington, D.C. She also serves on the Nordic Council of the UWC (United World College)—Red Cross Nordic, on the advisory board for the Kistefos Public Service Fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School, and is the co-chair of the Cuban Studies Program Advisory Group at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Alvarez-Bjelland has been recognized by numerous areas of the University, receiving the Radcliffe Distinguished Service Award, the Hiram S. Hunn Award from the Harvard College Admissions Office, the HAA Award, and the 2019 Harvard Medal, bestowed in recognition of extraordinary service to the University.

Before turning her energy to the nonprofit sector, Alvarez-Bjelland held executive management positions with Estée Lauder, Bates Advertising, and Johnson Wax.

HAKEEM BELO-OSAGIE MBA ’80

Nigeria | FSDH Holding Company Limited

Hakeem Belo-Osagie is a well-respected Nigerian entrepreneur with a track record of leading and backing highly successful private investments in various sectors of the Nigerian economy. Belo-Osagie is the chairman of the board of FSDH Holding Company Ltd., which includes among its holdings a merchant bank, an asset management company, a pension fund administration company, and a securities trading company. Belo-Osagie chairs the board of Chocolate City Group, a leading entertainment conglomerate in Nigeria. He was recently appointed an Expert Global Advisor and member of the International Advisory Group of Equinor, the Norwegian energy company previously known as Statoil. He is also the main stakeholder in and chair of the board of Duval Properties Ltd., a real estate company engaged in a mixed-use development in Abuja, Nigeria. He is a member of both the Global Board of Advisors for the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institute. Additionally, he serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. For the past two years, Belo-Osagie has, together with Professor Caroline Elkins, taught the special intensive course on business in Africa as part of the MBA program at Harvard Business School. In 2019 he accepted a part-time term appointment as a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.

Belo-Osagie has an AB in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, a law degree from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

LINCOLN E. BENET MBA ’89

United Kingdom | Access Industries

Lincoln E. Benet MBA ’89 is the chief executive officer of Access Industries, a privately held industrial group founded by Len Blavatnik MBA ’89, with long-term holdings worldwide spanning natural resources and chemicals; technology, media, and telecom; and real estate. Prior to joining Access Industries in 2006, Benet was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, where he worked for 17 years in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, fixed income, and capital markets.

Benet is a board member of LyondellBasell Industries, Perform Group, and Warner Music Group.

Benet received an AB summa cum laude in economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

LEN BLAVATNIK MBA ’89

United States/United Kingdom | Access Industries

Len Blavatnik MBA ’89 is the founder and chairman of Access Industries, a privately held industrial group with global strategic investments in natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, venture capital, and real estate. Among its other investments, Access owns Warner Music Group, a leading global music company, and holds a significant stake in LyondellBasell Industries, the world’s third-largest independent chemical company.

An active philanthropist, Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation support numerous leading educational, cultural, and charity institutions, including Tel Aviv University, Carnegie Hall, Tate, and Lincoln Center. In 2007, Blavatnik created the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists to acknowledge the excellence of exceptional young scientists and engineers in the U.S.; in 2017, the awards were expanded to encompass the U.K. and Israel. In 2010, Blavatnik established the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Blavatnik was knighted in the Queen's 2017 Birthday Honors for his services to philanthropy.

In 2013, the Blavatnik Family Foundation gave $50 million to Harvard University to launch a major initiative to expedite the development of basic science discoveries into breakthrough therapies for patients and cures for disease. The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator identifies early-stage, highly promising technologies and prepares them for licensing and commercial development. The gift also created the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Program at Harvard Business School to provide MBA students with experience in life science entrepreneurship through exposure to the biomedical projects supported by the Accelerator.

In November 2018, the Foundation pledged $200 million to Harvard Medical School to accelerate the pace of therapeutic discovery and support initiatives aimed at solving some of humanity's most acute biomedical challenges. The gift, the largest in the School’s 236-year history, will help propel Harvard’s mission in transforming health through curiosity-driven research that stimulates the development of new therapies and tools to diagnose and prevent disease.

In April 2019, the Foundation pledged an additional $10 million to extend the existing Blavatnik HBS Biomedical Accelerator Fellowship Program through 2029.

Blavatnik studied as an undergraduate in Moscow and received a master’s degree in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

JAMES W. BREYER MBA ’87

United States | Breyer Capital

Jim Breyer is the founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a premier venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA. Breyer has been an early investor in over 40 technology companies that have completed highly successful public offerings or mergers. Headed by Breyer as a lead investor and director, many of these investments returned well over 100 times their cost, and over a dozen more have returned well over 25 times their cost. Breyer is also the co-chairman of IDG Capital, based in Beijing, with offices in Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shanghai as well. Breyer currently serves on the board of directors of Blackstone (BX) and has previously served as an investor/lead director at Dell, Etsy, Facebook, Marvel Entertainment, 21st Century Fox, Walmart, and many other highly successful technology and media companies.

Breyer is currently the chairman of the advisory board at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. In addition, Breyer is a volunteer and board member at a number of other philanthropic organizations, including the Stanford University Human Assisted Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program, where he is a founding member.

JEFFREY CHEAH

Malaysia | The Sunway Group

Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah is the founder and chairman of Sunway Group, one of Malaysia’s largest conglomerates, with core interests in property, construction, education, and health care, operating in 50 locations worldwide. He is also the founding trustee of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation (JCF), Malaysia’s largest education-focused social enterprise.

Cheah is the founding trustee of the boards of the Mahathir Science Award Foundation, the Razak School of Government, and the Perdana Leadership Foundation. He is also a member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Harvard's Committee on University Resources; the Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council; and the chairman and cofounder of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute.

Through JCF, Cheah has made generous benefactions to world-renowned universities, including the establishment of the Jeffrey Cheah Professorship, the Jeffrey Cheah Visiting Professorship, the Jeffrey Cheah Travel Grants, and the Jeffrey Cheah Funds for Southeast Asia Studies at Harvard University. JCF also established the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia to deepen its academic partnership with Harvard and other leading universities by conducting and promoting joint research and teaching on the economies, societies, politics, and cultures of Southeast Asia.

Cheah has been appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) by the prime minister of Australia and Honorary Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) by Malaysia’s inspector-general of police. He was also appointed by the minister of education to serve on Malaysia’s education panel, which reviews the nation’s education system.

Cheah has been conferred 10 honorary doctorates by leading universities worldwide. He has twice been recognized by Forbes Asia as a “Hero of Philanthropy,” and he recently received the Channel NewsAsia Lifetime Achievement Luminary Award; the Malaysian Institute of Management’s Malaysian Leadership Excellence Award; and the Dayawati Modi Award for Art, Culture, and Education.

CHARLES CHEN YIDAN

China | Tencent

Dr. Charles Chen Yidan is the core founder of Tencent, founder and honorary chairman of the Tencent Charity Foundation, and the founder of the Yidan Prize.

In 1998, Dr. Charles Chen Yidan cofounded Tencent and served as chief administrative officer. In June 2007, Chen led Tencent to launch the Tencent Charity Foundation, the very first charity foundation in China’s internet industry, and has been the honorary Chairman of Tencent Charity Foundation ever since. After leaving office in 2013, he served as the lifetime honorary consultant of Tencent. Since 2009, Chen has been dedicated to setting up Wuhan College, a pioneer nonprofit private university in China. In 2016, Chen made an endowment of HK$2.5 billion (about $320 million USD) to set up the Yidan Prize, a worldwide education award. In 2018, Chen donated Tencent shares to set up a charitable trust with a market value of more than HK$4 billion, focusing on furthering the development of education.

In recognition of his philanthropic work, Dr. Chen was awarded the China Charity Award and listed among China’s top 10 philanthropists in 2013, ranked the top of the 13th annual China Charity Ranking in 2016, and in 2017 Forbes ranked him as China’s top philanthropist. Chen is also known as the “First Man of Chinese Internet Philanthropy” and the “Father of Internet Philanthropy”.

HOWARD COX MBA ’69

United States | Special Limited Partner

Howard Cox is a special limited partner of Greylock, a national venture capital firm. Greylock, with committed capital of over $4 billion under management, has been an active investor in enterprise software, consumer internet, and health care. Over 170 Greylock companies have gone on to become publicly held, and more than 120 have successfully merged with other leading companies. Greylock companies that have issued IPOs include LinkedIn, Facebook, Palo Alto Networks, and Workday. Cox has current or past directorships of more than 30 companies, including three listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Cox has led Greylock in a number of successful investments, including American Medical Systems (acquired by Pfizer); Amisys Managed Care (IPO); Appex Cellular (acquired by EDS); Arbor Health Care (IPO, acquired by Extendicare); BMR Financial (IPO, acquired by SouthTrust); Centene (IPO); CheckFree Corporation (IPO, acquired by Fiserv); HPR (IPO, acquired by HBO & Company); ISSCO (IPO, acquired by CA Technologies); Landacorp (IPO, acquired by SHPS); Lunar (IPO, acquired by GE Medical Systems); Meditech (private); OTG Software (IPO, acquired by Legato); Promega (private); Rehab Systems (acquired by NovaCare); Share Development (acquired by UnitedHealthcare); Stryker (IPO); United Publishers (acquired by NYNEX Corporation); VHA Long Term Care (acquired by ServiceMaster); and Vincam Group (IPO, acquired by ADP).

Cox is a trustee of various Fidelity mutual funds. Prior to joining Greylock, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and he has served on the Secretary of Defense's Business Board.

Cox’s current nonprofit activities include Executive Committee, In-Q-Tel; president, Clermont Foundation; trustee of the Brookings Institution, Business Executives for National Security, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Board of Fellows, Harvard Medical School; Dean’s Councils, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School; member, Council on Foreign Relations; and past chairman, National Venture Capital Association.

Cox received his AB from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was an International Fellow. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and was a 2003 recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award, which is the highest honor the School can give to an alumnus. Upon graduation from Princeton, Cox was commissioned a second lieutenant, Artillery, where he was a Distinguished Military Graduate of the Army ROTC program. Various members of his family have been active in the U.S. military, including General Richard Delafield, for whom Delafield Pond at West Point Military Academy is named. Cox is an active jet aircraft pilot.

LUCIANA DE OLIVEIRA CEZAR COELHO AM ’96, PHD ’98

Brazil | STS GAEA Capital

Luciana de Oliveira Cezar Coelho AM ’96, PhD ’98 is the founding and managing partner of STS GAEA Capital, an independent investment company focused on long-term investments and corporate advisory services. Before founding STS GAEA in 2013, de Oliveira was one of the founding partners of STK Capital, an asset management company focused on public equities, and one of the founding partners of Virtus BR Partners, a financial advisory boutique. She worked as an investment banker in Brazil and in the U.S. at Banco Santander, ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers.

De Oliveira is a member of the board of directors of Raízen S.A., Energisa S.A., and Veste S.A. (Restoque). De Oliveira is also co-founder of the Instituto República.org, co-founder and vice president of the Instituto Vassouras Cultural, a member of the Public Policy Debate Center (CDPP), and a member of the Executive Committee of Prep Program at the Lemann Foundation. She served as a member of the board of directors of Norte Energia S.A. (Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex), LPS Brasil S.A. (Lopes), Verde Agritech Ltd., and Entalpia Participações S.A. (Unicoba). De Oliveira has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a master’s degree in economics from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and a master’s and a PhD in economics in the fields of finance, game theory, and contract theory from Harvard University.

PAUL B. EDGERLEY MBA ’83

United States | Bain Capital Private Equity

Paul Edgerley MBA ’83 was a managing director at Bain Capital from 1990 until his retirement in January 2016. Since his retirement, he has served as a senior advisor to the firm. During his time at Bain Capital, Edgerley played a senior leadership role in the firm, coleading the private equity business, overseeing the firm’s expansion into Asia, and serving as the cohead of the firm’s investment committee. He is also a managing director of VantEdge Partners, a private investment family office group focused on building partnerships that grow excellent companies.

Edgerley currently serves as a director and chairman of the board of the New York Stock Exchange-listed Sensata Technologies and serves on the board of directors of Hero MotoCorp, APEX Tool Group, TI Automotive, the Boston Celtics, and AS Roma.

He also serves on the board of directors of Year Up, the board of Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Business School, and he is commission chair of the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA), a federal government bipartisan commission. Edgerley previously served as co-chair of The Harvard University Capital Campaign; co-chair of The Harvard Campaign for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and as a member of the executive committee of the Trust Board of Kansas State University, Boston Children’s Hospital Trust Board, the board of New Profit Inc., and the U.S. board of the Right to Play.

Prior to joining Bain Capital, Edgerley spent five years at Bain & Company, where he worked as a consultant and manager in the health care, information services, retail, and automobile industries. Previously, he was a certified public accountant working at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company. Edgerley was awarded an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Kansas State University.

He and his wife, Sandra, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School graduate, reside in Brookline, MA. They have four grown children, three of whom are FAS graduates.

AMY C. FALLS MP ’89

United States | Northwestern University

Amy Falls was appointed vice president and chief investment officer for Northwestern University in May 2021. She is responsible for managing the university’s $13 billion diversified portfolio. The endowment supports a wide range of university operations, including undergraduate and graduate financial aid, University institutes and centers, faculty positions and department chairs, research, and athletics. She is responsible for about a quarter of the University’s annual revenue. Falls came to Northwestern from Rockefeller University, a biomedical research institution in New York, where she had served as chief investment officer since 2011. Prior to that, she was the founding chief investment officer of Phillips Academy Andover. In both of these roles, Falls attained top decile performance, including generating the second-highest performance in 2020 among university endowments greater than $1 billion. Falls received her BA in History from Georgetown University and a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She currently serves on the boards of Harvard Management Corporation and The Ford Foundation and is the chair of the board of Phillips Academy Andover. Ms. Falls lives in Lake Forest, Illinois, with her husband Hartley Rogers, and has three daughters.

VICTOR KWOK-KING FUNG PHD ’71

Hong Kong | Fung Group

Victor Kwok-King Fung PhD ’71 is the group chairman of the Fung Group, which comprises major subsidiaries in trading, logistics, distribution, and retailing. Its holdings include the publicly listed Li & Fung Limited, Global Brands Group Holding Limited, and Convenience Retail Asia Limited. He is chairman of the advisory board of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong, a multidisciplinary think tank co-established with the Fung Global Institute.

Fung holds a number of civic and professional appointments, including serving as a nonofficial member of the chief executive's Council of Advisors on Innovation and Strategic Development for Hong Kong, an advisor of the Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance. He is a former chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (1991–2000), a Hong Kong representative on the APEC Business Advisory Council (1996–2003), chairman of the Airport Authority Hong Kong (1999–2008), chairman of the council of the University of Hong Kong (2001–09), chairman of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council (2004–13), and chairman of the Steering Committee of the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme (2014–18).

The Hong Kong government awarded Fung the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2003 and the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2010 for his distinguished service to the Hong Kong community. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 in recognition for his commitment to public service. In 1995, Fung was voted “Businessman of the Year” at the Hong Kong Business Awards for his success as an entrepreneur and for his contribution to Hong Kong’s economic development. He was also chosen as “Hong Kong Leader of the Year” in 1998 and was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the 50 Asian leaders leading the region out of economic turmoil.

Fung received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in business economics from Harvard University.

CLAUDIO GARCIA

Brazil/United States | The Garcia Family Foundation

Garcia, a Brazilian citizen, graduated from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro with a BA in economics. Garcia interned at Companhia Cervejaria Brahma in 1991 and was employed as a management trainee in February 1993. From 1993 until 2001, Garcia worked in several positions in finance, mainly in the area of corporate budgeting. In 2001, he started the first Shared Service Center for Ambev and in 2003 he became the head of both the Technology and Shared Services operations. Garcia participated in all mergers and acquisitions integration projects from 1999 until 2018. In 2005, he was appointed chief information and shared service officer for Inbev (following the combination of Ambev and Interbrew) in Leuven, Belgium. From 2006 to 2014, Garcia combined the functions of chief people and technology officer. From 2014 to January 2018, Garcia was the chief people officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Garcia is chairman of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee of AB-Inbev board of directors, a board member of Lojas Americanas, cofounder of the Garcia Family Foundation, chairman of the Telles Foundation, and a trustee at the Chapin School in New York City.

JAIME GILINSKI MBA '80

Colombia | Banco GNB Sudameris

Jaime Gilinski is a Colombian banker, real estate developer, and philanthropist. He earned his SB in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard University.

Gilinski has extensive holdings, primarily in the banking and real estate sectors in Latin America and the United States. Currently, Gilinski serves as chairman for Banco GNB Sudameris in Bogotá, Colombia, with holdings in Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay. In partnership with London & Regional Properties in London, Gilinski is developing Panama Pacifico, a business and residential development in Panama City, Panama.

Gilinski is the chair of Capital Projects for the Chabad House at Harvard University. Through the Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Endowment, Gilinski supports the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He is also a member of the Advisory Board at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Global Advisory Council as well as the President's Advisory Board at Georgia Tech.

ROBERT F. GREENHILL MBA ’62

United States | Greenhill & Co., Inc.

Robert F. Greenhill MBA ’62 is founder and chairman of Greenhill & Co., Inc., an independent investment bank he founded in 1996. In addition, he has served as a director since 2004 and as chief executive officer from 1996 to 2007.

Greenhill began his career at Morgan Stanley Group, where he became a partner in 1970 and directed its newly formed mergers and acquisitions department in 1972. In 1980, he became a member of the firm’s management committee and was named director of the firm’s inveGreenhill began his career at Morgan Stanley Group, where he became a partner in 1970 and directed its newly formed mergers and acquisitions department in 1972. In 1980, he became a member of the firm’s management committee and was named director of the firm’s investment banking division, with responsibility for domestic and international corporate finance. Greenhill served as Morgan Stanley’s vice chairman from 1989 to 1991 and president from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 1996, Greenhill was chairman and chief executive officer of Smith Barney Inc. He also served as a director of Smith Barney’s parent company, which is now known as Travelers Corporation.

Greenhill received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

CLAUDIO L. HADDAD OPM ’87

Brazil | Insper Institute of Education & Research

Claudio Haddad OPM ’87 is the founder and chairman of the board of Insper, a leading not-for-profit business, economics, and engineering school in Brazil. He is also chairman of the board, founder, and main shareholder of Grupo Ibmec SA, a for-profit organization operating Faculdades Ibmec.

Haddad sits on the boards of BM&F Bovespa, Ideal Invest, Albert Einstein Hospital, and Instituto Unibanco. In addition, he is chairman of the advisory council of the Brazil office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and a member of the advisory council of the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. From 1993 to 1998, Haddad was chief executive officer of Banco de Investimentos Garantia SA, a Brazilian investment bank (structured as a partnership), which was bought by Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. From 1980 to 1982, he served as director responsible for public debt and open market operations for the Central Bank of Brazil. Haddad was a professor of economics at the Graduate School of Economics of Fundação Getúlio Vargas between 1974 and 1980.

Haddad received a BS in engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago, where his doctoral thesis focused on the quantitative economic history of post-war Brazil. He was also part of the OPM program at Harvard Business School.

RITA E. HAUSER HLS ’58

United States | The Hauser Foundation, Inc.

Rita E. Hauser HLS ’58, president of The Hauser Foundation, is an international lawyer and was a senior partner for more than 20 years at the New York City law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Hauser served on the president's Intelligence Advisory Board from December 2009 to December 2012 and from 2001 to 2004.

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, she serves as a member of the Academy’s Trust. For two decades (1993–2016), Hauser chaired the International Peace Institute (a think tank for United Nations–related matters) and serves on the advisory board of the International Crisis Group. She chaired the American Ditchley Foundation from 2006 through 2010, and was elected a governor of the British Ditchley Foundation in 2010. She served on the visiting committee at Harvard Kennedy School and was vice chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School.

Among their many philanthropic projects, Hauser and her husband, Gustave, have funded Hauser Hall at Harvard Law School and founded the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University in 1997, which became the Hauser Institute for Civil Society in 2013. Early in 2012, they established the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. The Hausers were the principal benefactors of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University Law School. She is a director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and serves on its executive committee. Hauser was national co-chair of the last Harvard University Campaign and currently serves as an honorary chair of The Harvard Campaign.

Hauser was awarded the Albert Gallatin Medal, the highest honor for public service of New York University, in 2006; the Vanderbilt Medal, the highest honor of New York University School of Law, in 2004; as well as the Harvard Medal for distinguished service to Harvard University in 1999. She holds advanced degrees from the University of Strasbourg in France, Harvard Law School, New York University Law School, and the University of Paris Law School.

JOHN B. HESS AB ’75, MBA ’77

United States | Hess Corporation

John B. Hess is chief executive officer of Hess Corporation. Hess led the Fortune 500 company through a strategic transformation from an integrated oil company into a pure play E&P company. Hess recently served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Quadrennial Review Task Force. He is a member of the board of directors of KKR & Company and the board of trustees at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the Business Council, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and he serves on the executive committee of the American Petroleum Institute. In addition, Hess serves on the board of directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and on the board of trustees at Mount Sinai Hospital, the New York Public Library, and the Economic Club of New York.

Hess holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School, he was also chairman of the Harvard Business School Campaign.

FRED HU AM ’93, PHD ’93

Hong Kong | Primavera Capital Group

Fred Hu AM ’93, PhD ’93 is the founder and chairman of Primavera Capital Group, an investment firm with global and domestic market-leading portfolio companies headquartered in China and around the world. Hu is a respected economist whose main areas of research include macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, and international finance. He served at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and he has advised the Chinese government on financial reform, SOE restructuring, and macroeconomic policies. Hu also served on the Hong Kong Government’s Strategic Development Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

Hu is currently the nonexecutive chairman of Yum China Holdings Inc. and a member of several corporate boards, including ICBC, UBS Group AG, and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, among others. In addition, Hu is the co-chair of the Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Council, a trustee of the China Medical Board, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Global Advisory Board, a member of Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council, and a member of the advisory committees of several world-leading institutions, including the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford Center for International Development, and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia University.

Hu serves as the co-director of the National Center for Economic Research and a professor at Tsinghua University, and he is also an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Peking University. Previously, Hu was chairman of Greater China and a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he was instrumental in building the firm’s franchise in the Asia Pacific region. Hu holds a master’s degree in engineering science from Tsinghua University and a master's degree and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON

United States | New York Jets

An established businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist, Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson is a fourth-generation member of the founding family of Johnson & Johnson, the worldwide health care company.

From 2017 to 2021, Johnson served as the ambassador of the United States of America to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In this role, Ambassador Johnson led 1,000 employees at Embassy London in their work to protect and enhance the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K. Ambassador Johnson prioritized security and economic cooperation between the two countries, and also oversaw a historic move of the U.S. Embassy in London from Grosvenor Square to Nine Elms.

In 2021, Ambassador Johnson, an owner of the New York Jets, resumed his duties as the team’s chairman and CEO. Under more than two decades of his leadership, the Jets have built a competitive team, a world-class training complex, and a 21st-century stadium hailed as one of the finest in the NFL. Johnson has also created the New York Jets Foundation to fund multiple programs supporting students and families in disadvantaged communities. Prior to owning the Jets, Johnson spent more than 30 years as chairman and CEO of the Johnson Company Inc., a private investment management company.

Ambassador Johnson formerly served as a trustee and a trustee emeritus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropic organization devoted exclusively to promoting health and health care for Americans. Ambassador Johnson has worked for many years with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and is the founding chairman of the Lupus Research Alliance. Since its inception, the Lupus Research Alliance has become the largest private funder of lupus research in the world.

Ambassador Johnson has long been active in local philanthropic and civic affairs. His past service includes being an honorary trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society, a board member of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and a board member of the Peregrine Fund. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, Ambassador Johnson has been a longtime supporter of the Central Park Conservancy and the Montana Land Reliance.

Ambassador Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona and has completed Harvard Business School’s Smaller Company Management program.

MICHAEL KLEIN

United States | M. Klein and Company, LLC

Michael Klein’s firm, M. Klein and Company, is a global strategic advisor to chief executive officers, boards of directors, governments, and large institutional investors. Launched in 2012, the firm has rapidly developed into one of the leading advisory boutiques globally.

Klein’s background in strategic advisory work was built during a 30-year career, including more than two decades at Citi and its predecessors, during which time he initiated and executed hundreds of strategic advisory transactions. He began his career as an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory Group at Salomon Smith Barney and subsequently became head of investment banking of all Citi affiliates, including Salomon Smith Barney and Schroders plc.

After building Citi’s investment bank into a successful, respected global franchise, Klein was named CEO of all of Citi’s institutional clients’ businesses, which had aggregate revenues of approximately $20 billion and 65,000 employees. He led the negotiations and integration of the investments and acquisitions of Schroders, Nikko, Bysis, Akbank and the merger between Citi and Salomon Smith Barney investment banking businesses.

Klein now leads a firm which provides strategic and financial advice to companies and pro bono advice to governments. Since its founding, M. Klein and Company has advised on transactions valued in excess of $700 billion. M. Klein has also recently launched Archimedes Advisors and Churchill Capital, unique CEO-led investment vehicles aimed at creating market-leading public companies.

During the financial crisis, Klein served as the special advisor to the prime minister of the United Kingdom, sharing responsibility for the U.K. bank rescue plan. For more than a decade, Klein has served as special advisor to the United Nations World Food Programme regarding food security and disaster recovery. He is a member of various boards and advisory boards, including Credit Suisse Group AG, Clarivate plc, Churchill Capital, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, American Academy in Berlin, TBG AG, Conservation International, Mount Sinai, Akbank, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Klein is married and has two children. The family has resided in New York since 2006, after returning from London where they lived for seven years. Klein graduated from the Wharton School.

JAMES C. KRALIK AB ’86, MBA ’90

China | Linden Street Capital Limited

James Kralik AB ’86, MBA ’90 is the managing director of Linden Street Capital Limited, an investment holding company with real estate, public market securities, and private equity interests. He also serves as a director of Milestone Capital Investment Holdings Limited, a private equity firm that has been investing in China-based businesses since 2002.

Kralik has been based in China for nearly 30 years. He began his career at McKinsey & Company in 1986 and worked in North America and China before and after graduate school. In 1993, he founded a Hong Kong–based group of media companies operating throughout Greater China, and co-managed these businesses through their sale in 2001. From 2001 to 2004, Kralik was the chief executive officer of VTech Telecommunications Limited (0303.HK), leading the company through a financial turnaround.

While studying at Harvard Business School, Kralik was an economics tutor at Adams House. He also taught Harvard’s first-year economics course “Principles of Economics” and was awarded the Allyn A. Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching. More recently, Kralik has taught an undergraduate management course at Fudan University in Shanghai.

In addition to the Harvard University Global Advisory Council, Kralik currently serves on the Harvard Business School Global Leaders Circle, the Harvard China Advisory Group, and the board of trustees of the University School in Cleveland, Ohio. He previously served as president of the Harvard Business School Association in Hong Kong and on the Harvard Business School Global Alumni Board. He is married to Yunli Lou AB ’91, the founding partner and managing director of Milestone Capital. They reside in Shanghai and have four children ages 13 through 20.

KEWSONG LEE AB ’86, MBA ’90

United States | The Carlyle Group

Kewsong Lee AB ’86, MBA ’90 is the chief executive officer of The Carlyle Group, chairman of its Executive Group, and was elected to the Board of Directors effective January 1, 2018.

Lee joined Carlyle in 2013 as deputy chief investment officer for Corporate Private Equity and, in 2016, he assumed the additional role of leading the Global Credit segment. Prior to joining Carlyle, Lee was a partner and a member of the Executive Management Group at Warburg Pincus, where he spent 21 years.

He is currently the president of Lincoln Center Theater, vice chairman for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce China Center, and a member of the Business Roundtable and Global Advisory Council of Harvard University. He also serves on the board of the US-China Business Council and FCLT Global, and is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an Executive Committee member of the Partnership for New York.

Lee has been married to his wife, Zita Ezpeleta AB ’88, JD ’91, for over 25 years and they have two adult children. He earned his AB in applied mathematics in economics at Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

MOU-SHIUNG LIN SM ’78, PHD ’82

Taiwan | iCometrue Company Ltd.

Mou-Shiung “M. S.” Lin SM ’78, PhD ’82 is the founder and chief executive officer of iCometrue Company Ltd. Previously, he served as vice president in the strategic IP division of Qualcomm; founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of the semiconductor company Megic Corporation from 1999 to 2006 and Megica Corporation from 2006 to 2009 (Megica was acquired by Qualcomm in 2009); president of WYSE Technology Taiwan Ltd. from 1997 to 1998; and fab director/R&D director of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from 1990 to 1997. Prior to joining TSMC, Lin worked in the United States at AT&T Bell Laboratories and IBM.

Lin served as an adjunct professor at National Tsing Hua University from 1995 to 1997, co-organizing an interdisciplinary core course program of the semiconductor industry. Lin taught classes on very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit systems while serving as an adjunct professor at National Chiao Tung University from 1992 to 1994 and at National Taiwan University from 1991 to 1992. He is an inventor or coinventor of over 300 U.S.-issued patents in the semiconductor field and has published more than 80 technical papers in international technical journals.

Lin received a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University in 1982 and was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) while a doctoral candidate. He received an SM from Harvard in 1978 and an SB in physics from National Taiwan University.

ANDRÓNICO LUKSIC

Chile | Luksic Group

Andrónico Luksic is chairman of the board of directors of the Luksic Group’s holding company, Quiñenco S.A., Chile’s leading business conglomerate and the controlling entity of a number of industrial and service companies. He is also the vice chairman of the board of directors of Banco de Chile, the country’s leading financial institution.

Luksic is president of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. (CCU) and its subsidiary companies, CCU Chile and CCU Argentina. He is also vice president of Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores S.A. (CSAV) and a member of the boards of directors of Antofagasta Minerals plc, Nexans, and Invexans.

In Chile, Luksic founded and is president of three nonprofit organizations: Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, Fundación Amparo y Justicia, and Fundación Impulso Inicial. He is also a board member of the Chile Pacific Foundation.

Outside of Chile, Luksic is a member of the International Business Leaders’ Advisory Council for the mayor of Shanghai, the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold, the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution, the Chairman’s International Advisory Council at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, and a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Panama Canal Authority.

Consistent with his commitments to education, Luksic is also a founding member of the Harvard Global Advisory Council and the Columbia University World Projects Advisory Council, as well as the International Advisory Boards of the Fudan University School of Management and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is also a trustee emeritus at Babson College, as well as a member of the Americas Executive Board at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and the Latin America Advisory Board of Harvard Business School.

In addition to these endeavors, Luksic is an accomplished mountaineer, having climbed to the summit of Mount Everest in May 2004. In December 2005, he completed his quest for the “Seven Summits of the World” by climbing to the summit of the highest peak on each of the seven continents.

Luksic was educated in Santiago, Chile, at the Grange School prior to attending the Dublin Preparatory School and Babson College.

SCOTT D. MALKIN AB ’80, MBA ’83, JD ’84

United Kingdom | Value Retail PLC and S.D. Malkin Properties

Scott D. Malkin AB ’80, MBA ’83, JD ’84 is the founder and chairman of S.D. Malkin Properties, a specialist real estate development company focusing on retail-led experiential projects in the United States and Europe. He is also the founder and chairman of Value Retail PLC, cofounder and chairman of Value Retail China, and managing partner of the New York Islanders.

Malkin is a member of Harvard Medical School’s Global Health and Service Advisory Council; the Massachusetts General Hospital President’s Council; and the advisory boards of the Tobin Project, Tompkins Conservation, Columbia Global Centers, Paris, and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. In addition, he is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the New York Public Library, and Partners In Health.

Malkin serves on various committees at Harvard University, including those that support Harvard Magazine, Harvard Business School (where he is a member of the Dean’s Board of Advisors), and the University’s fundraising efforts.

SCOTT MEAD AB ’77

United Kingdom | Richmond Park Partners LLP

Scott Mead AB ’77 is a photographer, philanthropist, and investor.

Mead was a partner at Goldman Sachs and began his investment banking career in New York, relocating to London in 1987. He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2003 and later was a founding partner of Richmond Park Partners LLP in London and senior advisor at Apax Partners. 

In the mid-1970s, while at Harvard, Mead studied photography under renowned photographers William Eggleston and Emmet Gowin and had various exhibitions. Following his time at Goldman Sachs, he returned to photography, and in 2010 he had a solo exhibition, Looking Back, at Hamiltons Gallery in London, producing a book of the same name. Mead’s work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition from 2011 to 2017 and in 2019. He was profiled on the BBC’s The Culture Show in connection with one of his entries. All proceeds from the sale of his work are donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital, where one of his children was cured of a life-threatening illness as a baby. Mead’s most recent book, Above the Clouds, was published by Prestel in September 2017, and a solo exhibition of the same name took place at Hamiltons Gallery in 2018. He plans to publish Equivalents next year.

Through the Mead Family Foundation, of which he is founder and chairman, Mead is involved with a number of institutions focused on education, health care, and the arts. He is a former Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association and has served on many Harvard visiting committees and task forces. He was a charter trustee of Phillips Academy Andover and has held various roles with the University of Cambridge. He is a governor of the University of the Arts London (the largest arts university in Europe).

Mead is a member of the executive committee of the Tate Foundation and sits on the Global Advisory Council of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour, where he was centrally involved in achieving equal prize money for women. He previously served in a similar capacity for the men’s tennis tour. 

He was a trustee of the International Center of Photography in New York and was a trustee and the former chair of the Photographers’ Gallery in London, the largest publicly funded photography gallery in Europe. Among other appointments, he served for five years on the board of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.

Mead received an AB cum laude from Harvard College, an MPhil from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (where he was the Harvard Scholar), and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

MICKEY MIKITANI

Japan | Rakuten Group, Inc.

Mickey (Hiroshi) Mikitani is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Rakuten Group, Inc. Founded in Japan in 1997 with the mission to contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship, Rakuten has grown to become one of the world’s leading internet services companies.

Rakuten has a dynamic ecosystem of more than 70 services, spanning e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications, bringing the joy of discovery to more than 1.2 billion members across the world. Rakuten is also preparing to become Japan’s newest mobile network operator in 2019.

In July 2017, Rakuten became the Main Global Partner and first-ever Global Innovation and Entertainment Partner of one of the world’s most admired soccer clubs, FC Barcelona, and in September of the same year, it became the first-ever jersey partner of the Golden State Warriors.

Born in Kobe, Japan, Mikitani was educated at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, began his career in investment banking, and earned his MBA at Harvard Business School. In 2012, he was awarded the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, one of the School’s highest honors.

Mikitani is also a recipient of the Legion of Honor, awarded by the French government in recognition of contributions to the economy and culture of France. In 2011, he was appointed chairman of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, which has the longest history and tradition of any orchestra in Japan, and he serves as representative director of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE). In 2015, Mikitani was appointed as board director at Lyft Inc. In 2016, he was appointed chairman and director of Rakuten Medical Inc. (formerly Rakuten Aspyrian Inc.), a biotechnology company developing precision-targeted cancer therapies based on its proprietary photoimmunotherapy platform, and also took up the role of CEO in 2018.

ADITYA MITTAL

India/United Kingdom | ArcelorMittal

Aditya Mittal is the president and CFO of ArcelorMittal. As CFO of Mittal Steel, he initiated and led Mittal Steel’s offer for Arcelor to create the world’s largest steel company. In 2008, Mittal was named “European Business Leader of the Future” by CNBC Europe, and he was ranked fourth in Fortune magazine’s "40 Under 40" list in 2011.

Mittal serves on the boards of Aperam and Iconiq Capital, and is chairman of India’s second largest oil refinery, HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL). He is also a trustee at the Brookings Institution and an alumni of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program. With a dedicated interest in philanthropy, he and his wife, Megha, are significant supporters of the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London, and are also heavily involved in children’s health care in India. He is a keen surfer and tennis player. 

Mittal graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is married to Megha, chairwoman of Escada, and they have three children.

SUNIL BHARTI MITTAL OPM ’99

India | Bharti Enterprises

Sunil Bharti Mittal is the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s first-generation corporations, with interests in Telecom, Space, Insurance, Real Estate, Hospitality, and Food. Bharti has joint ventures with several global leaders: SingTel, SoftBank, AXA, Del Monte, and the U.K. government, amongst others.

Bharti Airtel, the flagship company of Bharti Enterprises, is a global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top three mobile operators globally and covers a population of over two billion. Airtel is India’s largest integrated telecom provider and the second-largest mobile operator in Africa. At the end of March 2021, Airtel had over 470 million customers across its operations.

Bharti Global in partnership with the U.K. government recently acquired OneWeb—a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. This new-age space initiative will provide high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity in the deep rural, maritime, aviation, and defense sector across the globe by 2022. Mittal is the executive chairman of OneWeb.

Mittal is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honors, awarded to individuals for demonstrating distinguished services of high order. He has also been awarded Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Honor—the utmost honor accorded by the institute to its alumni. He is the recipient of GSMA’s prestigious Chairman’s award, besides being decorated with numerous industry honors. Mittal has been conferred honorary doctorates by several leading universities in India and Europe.

Mittal serves on many international bodies and think tanks. He served as the chairman of international Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the chairman of GSM Association (GSMA) concurrently from 2016 to 2018. He was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) from 2009 to 2021. He is a member of the International Business Council-WEF and commissioner of the Broadband Commission, a member of the Global Board of Advisors at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), member of the board of trustees at Education Above All Foundation, Qatar, and on the board of Qatar Foundation Endowment. He has also served as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the premier industry body in India. Mittal has served on the boards of several multinational companies including Unilever PLC, Standard Chartered Bank PLC, and SoftBank Corp. 

Mittal is closely associated with spearheading the Indian industry’s global trade initiatives—he has served on the Prime Minister of India’s Council on Trade and Industry. He is also a member of the India-US, India-UK, India-Japan, and India-Sweden CEO Forums. He is co-chair of the India-Africa Business Council.

Deeply associated with the cause of education, Mittal is on Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council and has served on the board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School.

Mittal believes that a responsible corporation has a duty to give back to the community in which it operates. This belief has resulted in Bharti Foundation, which operates more than 180 Satya Bharti Schools as well as supports over 790 government schools to ensure holistic education. Over 450,000 underprivileged children in rural India have benefitted from the programs of Bharti Foundation since its inception. Mittal was ranked among the top 25 philanthropists in the world in 2009 by Barron’s magazine.

SHARMIN MOSSAVAR-RAHMANI

United States | Goldman Sachs

Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani is chief investment officer of Private Wealth Management (PWM) at Goldman Sachs. She is responsible for overall strategic asset allocation and tactical investment strategy within PWM. Sharmin joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 1993.

Prior to joining the firm, Sharmin worked at Fidelity Management Trust Company, where she was chief investment officer for all separate and co-mingled fixed income accounts.

Sharmin is a member of the board of trustees and the investment committee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Harvard University’s Committee on University Resources. She is a former member of the board of trustees and a former chair of the investment committee of the Trinity School in New York City. Sharmin has published two books, one on bond indexing and one on OPEC natural gas, as well as numerous articles on portfolio management issues.

Mossavar-Rahmani received a BA from Princeton University and an MS from Stanford University.

PRECIOUS MOLOI-MOTSEPE

South Africa | Motsepe Foundation and African Fashion International

Precious Moloi-Motsepe is the cofounder and CEO of the Motsepe Foundation and chief executive of African Fashion International.

Through the Motsepe Foundation, she has initiated projects in education and leadership; sports, music, and the arts; community development; a Centre for Gender Equality, Wellness and Leadership; and works with stakeholders and governments on initiatives to promote social cohesion.

Internationally, she is a partner to the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship to advance the social entrepreneurship agenda in Africa and the Milken Institute to invest in global innovators and entrepreneurs who are aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. She is also the cocreator of the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund at the Harvard University Center for African Studies, which supports faculty-led and student-driven research projects that focus on advancing key challenges and opportunities facing Africa.

A medical doctor by training, she established one of the first holistic women’s clinics in Johannesburg in 1993. With a focused interest in improving the lives of marginalized women and youth, she established African Fashion International in 2007. The first platform to promote pan-African fashion designers, she has grown to represent over 200 designers. With a global reach, she also works with young design graduates, including a few who have since become internationally recognized. In 2017, she became the first recipient of the Fashion 4 Development Franca Sozzani Award for her promotion of African designers and support for women artisans, and in 2022 she was recognized by Credit Suisse as a Woman of Impact for her diverse roles.

She is a board member at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the International Women’s Forum of South Africa, advisor to the Global Fashion Agenda’s Copenhagen Fashion Summit, and chair of the South African Universities Chancellors Forum since she became chancellor of the University of Cape Town in 2020.

Together with her husband, Patrice Motsepe, they became one of the first couples from Africa to join the Giving Pledge in 2013. In the same year, she graced the inaugural cover of Forbes Woman Africa and has since been considered one of the 50 most powerful women on the continent.

ADEBAYO O. OGUNLESI MBA ’78, JD ’79

United States | Global Infrastructure Partners

Bayo Ogunlesi MBA ’78, JD ’79 is chairman, managing partner, and founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a leading private equity firm that invests in infrastructure assets. He is based in New York City. Prior to the formation of GIP in 2006, Ogunlesi spent 23 years at Credit Suisse, where he held several senior positions, including executive vice chairman and chief client officer of the Investment Banking Division. From 2002 to 2004, he was head of the Global Investment Banking Division and a member of the Executive Board and Management Committee. Previously, Ogunlesi was an attorney with the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Ogunlesi holds an AB (first class honors) in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the lead director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and a member of the boards of directors of Callaway Golf Company, Kosmos Energy Holdings, Terminal Investment Limited SA, and Freeport LNG Development LP. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Boards of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School as well as a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Council.

ALEXANDER OTTO AB ’90, MBA ’94

Germany | ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG

Alexander Otto AB ’90, MBA ’94 has been chief executive officer of ECE, a company owned by the Otto family, since 2000. During his leadership, ECE became a leading European shopping center operator.

By now, the company has 3,400 employees and operates in 12 countries with assets under management totaling approximately €32.3 billion. Moreover, ECE is one of the leading developers of major real estate properties in Europe, focusing on office properties, hotels, logistics centers, and retail properties.

Otto is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Otto Group, Deutsche EuroShop AG, and SITE Centers in Cleveland. He also sits on the Advisory Board of Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf and is a board member of the Harvard Business School Foundation of Germany.

Otto is initiator and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lebendige Stadt Foundation, which promotes the revitalization of European inner cities. Furthermore, he supports youth and disabled sports in Hamburg through his Alexander Otto Sports Foundation. He also initiated and funded the construction of an ice and ball sports arena as well as the HSV Soccer Academy in Hamburg. In addition, he supports health care and cultural projects, among others, including the extensive refurbishment of Hamburg Art Museum through the Dorit & Alexander Otto Foundation. 

Otto was born in Hamburg in July 1967. After completing his International Baccalaureate in Oxford, he studied at Harvard College and Harvard Business School. He joined ECE in 1994.

SWATI A. PIRAMAL MPH ’92

India | Piramal Enterprises Limited

Swati A. Piramal MPH ’92 is one of India’s leading scientists and industrialists and is involved in public health and innovation. She earned her medical degree from Mumbai University and completed her master’s in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has used her background in medicine, public health, and business to change the trajectory of health care, education, and public policy in India. She is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors for Harvard Business School and the Harvard Chan School, and she also served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from 2012 to 2018.

In addition to her other commitments, Piramal is deeply committed to corporate social responsibilities activities. She is involved in projects across health care, education, livelihood creation, and youth empowerment. By finding innovative solutions, she aims to resolve issues that are critical roadblocks toward unlocking India’s economic potential. She also looks at avenues for promoting health in rural India with mobile health services, women’s empowerment projects, and community education that creates young leaders.

Piramal is a leader who makes a positive difference in the community and the world. Her contributions in innovations, new medicines, and public health services have touched thousands of lives.

ARVIND RAGHUNATHAN

United States/India | Roc Capital Management, LP

Arvind Raghunathan is the founder and chief executive officer of Roc Capital. Roc is a leading financial services platform in real estate.

Prior to founding Roc Capital, Raghunathan was a managing director and head of global arbitrage at Deutsche Bank and a member of the firm’s Global Markets Leadership Forum. He rejoined Deutsche Bank in 1999, having served a previous term there between 1995 and 1997, and that year cofounded a venture capital unit within the bank. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he headed a proprietary trading group at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Raghunathan received a bachelor of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India, in 1984 and his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. Upon graduating from Berkeley, he was a faculty member of the computer science departments at New York University and at the University of California, Davis. While he was a professor, Raghunathan was a consultant for a number of corporations, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Xerox. He is an author of numerous research papers in the fields of computer science and mathematics. 

Raghunathan and his wife, Sribala Subramanian, chaired the advisory council of the South Asia Institute at Harvard University until 2017. Among other philanthropic affiliations, Raghunathan has created an endowed chair at Columbia University and established scholarships at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a trustee of the Dalton School in New York, served on the board of the American India Foundation, and was a member of the advisory committee for the Asia Society.

ALEJANDRO RAMÍREZ MAGANA AB ’94, MBA ’01

Mexico | Cinépolis

Alejandro Ramírez Magaña AB ’94, MBA ’01 is chief executive officer of Cinépolis, one of the largest film exhibition companies in the world, with operations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Central America, India, Spain, the United States, and the Middle East.

He served as Mexico’s representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and as technical secretary of the Social Cabinet in the Executive Office of the President of Mexico. He has worked for the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program in the areas of poverty and human development. He is chairman of the Global Cinema Federation (GCF), the Morelia International Film Festival, and Mexicanos Primero, an initiative to raise the quality of education in Mexico. He serves on the boards of BBVA Bancomer, Grupo Alfa, the Mexican Competitiveness Institute, the Sundance Institute, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and the Harvard Board of Overseers.

He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2005 and co-chaired the WEF’s Annual Meeting in 2012. 

Also in 2012, he was appointed as chair of the B20, the G20’s Business Summit. He served as chairman of the Mexican Business Council from 2015 to 2019.

He holds an AB in economics from Harvard University, an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN

United States | The Carlyle Group

David M. Rubenstein is cofounder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $276 billion from 27 offices around the world.

Rubenstein is chairman of the boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of Washington; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rubenstein is a member of the American Philosophical Society, Business Council, Harvard Global Advisory Council (chairman), Madison Council of the Library of Congress (chairman), Board of Dean’s Advisors of Harvard Business School, advisory board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (former chairman), and board of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community.

Rubenstein has served as chairman of the board of trustees of Duke University and the Smithsonian Institution, and co-chairman of the board of the Brookings Institution.

Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge, a significant donor to all of the aforementioned nonprofit organizations, and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award, among other philanthropic awards.

Rubenstein is a leader in the area of patriotic philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book). 

Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV; and the author of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (Simon & Schuster, 2019) and How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers (Simon & Schuster, 2020).

Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

From 1973–75, Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 1975–76, he served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. From 1977–81, during the Carter Administration, Rubenstein was deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. After his White House service and before cofounding Carlyle, Rubenstein practiced law in Washington, D.C., with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman).

CHARLES EMMITT RYAN AB ’89

United States | UFG Asset Management

Charles "Charlie" E. Ryan AB ’89 is the chairman of UFG Asset Management as well as a general partner with Almaz Capital. He is also a cofounder in Liberty Energy Trust. Ryan’s distinguished financial career combines top-level expertise and deep knowledge of both Russian and international markets.

Ryan began his professional career in 1989 with Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was a financial analyst. After two years on Wall Street, he moved to Moscow in the early 1990s, during the chaotic early days of privatization, and went on to become an investment banker and venture capitalist specializing in Russia. From 1991 to 1994, he was an associate and principal banker with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, where he played a crucial role in the city of Saint Petersburg’s privatization program for industry and real estate. 

In 1994, Ryan cofounded United Financial Group (UFG), an independent investment bank in Moscow. In 2005, when Deutsche Bank acquired 100 percent of UFG’s investment banking business, Ryan was appointed chief country officer and chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank Group in Russia. In October 2008, he stepped down as chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank and became chairman of UFG Asset Management, an alternative asset manager in Russia. In addition to his role as chairman, he is also responsible for the overall management of UFG’s private equity business. Ryan moved back to the United States in 2008 with his family.

In 2013, Ryan cofounded Liberty Energy Trust, Liberty Infrastructure Trust (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania), which provides innovative solutions for financing and managing energy-related and infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania and the Eastern United States. It currently executes $500 million projects ranging from LNG, gas distribution, and CHPs to port development.

Ryan received an AB cum laude from Harvard College in 1989 with a concentration in government.

CHELLA SAFRA

Brazil/United States | Moise Y. Safra Foundation

Chella Safra leads the Moise Y. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. She has supported a multitude of charitable causes for many years with her late husband, Moise Y. Safra, and she continues work on their shared objectives. Her mission covers diverse areas: science, education, culture, religion, and women and children’s health. Countless global organizations such as hospitals, universities, and museums have benefitted from Moise and Chella’s generosity.

Together they established the Moise Y. Safra Professorship of Economics at Harvard University and the Chella and Moise Safra Professorship at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In memory of Moise Safra, the Moise Y. Safra Professorship at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was established, and Harvard University’s Moise Y. Safra Welcome Pavilion was inaugurated last fall at the opening of the new Smith Campus Center.

Chella Safra is the treasurer of the World Jewish Congress and a member of the board of directors of OSCIP Américas Amigas, a non-governmental organization dedicated to increasing breast cancer awareness and early detection among disadvantaged women in Brazil. She co-chairs Taglit-Birthright’s Global Leadership Advisory Board. She is a member of the board of directors of the Friends of the Israel Museum and has held numerous leadership roles in a variety of international bodies. Safra serves as president of the board of the Women’s Division of Keren Hayesod. She founded this group in 1986 to help and support new immigrants in Israel. In addition, she is a founder of the Moise Safra Community Center, scheduled to open in the fall of 2019, which will serve as a hub for Jewish social, recreational, cultural, and educational programming on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

While philanthropy is Safra’s calling, she is also committed to giving of herself and has been deeply involved in numerous humanitarian roles. She volunteered for more than a decade at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, where she worked with patients. She has also collaborated closely with many other organizations, such as Criança Sorriso, which supports disadvantaged children in Brazil’s favelas. Safra was born in Beirut and graduated from the Lycée Français–Institution Sainte Anne. She later moved to São Paulo and married Moise, with whom she had five children: Jacob, Ezra, Esther, Edmond, and Olga. Safra divides her time between Brazil and the United States and is fluent in Portuguese, English, French, and Arabic.

MELANIE SALATA

Hong Kong/United Kingdom | Salata Family Foundation

Melanie Salata is a trustee of the Salata Family Foundation. Melanie and her husband, Jean, support numerous charitable and educational organizations around the world with a focus on the arts, education, disadvantaged youth, and the environment. She received her MA in art history from Williams in 1993 and advocates for arts education, especially for underprivileged children. The Salatas sit on the Serpentine Gallery Council and are patrons of the TATE Museum in the United Kingdom and the M+ museum in Hong Kong.

In 2022, the Salatas established the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University, which brings together all of Harvard’s University-wide resources to address the climate crisis. The institute aims to achieve this through scientific and intellectual leadership, by engaging with key stakeholders and decision-makers in government, and by educating and inspiring the leaders of tomorrow. Forbes Asia included the Salatas in its 2022 “Heroes of Philanthropy” list. 

Melanie received a BA in French from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.

STEPHEN A. SCHWARZMAN MBA ’72

United States | The Blackstone Group L.P.

Stephen A. Schwarzman is chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms, with $545 billion assets under management (as of June 30, 2019). Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of Blackstone’s development since its founding in 1985. The firm has established leading investing businesses across asset classes, including private equity, where it is a global leader in traditional buyout, growth equity, special situations, and secondary investing; real estate, where it is currently the largest owner of property in the world; hedge fund solutions, where it is the world’s largest discretionary hedge fund investor; and credit, where it is a global leader and major provider of credit for small, middle-market, and other companies. Blackstone has also recently launched major new businesses dedicated to infrastructure and life sciences investing, as well as delivering the firm’s investment management expertise and products to insurance companies.

Schwarzman is an active philanthropist with a history of supporting education as well as culture and the arts, among other things. In both business and philanthropy, Schwarzman has dedicated himself to tackling big problems with transformative solutions. In October 2018, he announced a foundational $350 million gift to establish the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Schwarzman College of Computing, an interdisciplinary hub that will reorient MIT to address the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of artificial intelligence, including critical ethical and policy considerations to ensure that the technologies are employed for the common good. In 2015, Schwarzman donated $150 million to Yale University to establish the Schwarzman Center, a first-of-its-kind campus center in Yale’s historic “Commons” building, and also gave a founding gift of $40 million to the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, which provides tuition assistance to underprivileged children attending Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New York. In 2013, he founded an international scholarship program, “Schwarzman Scholars,” at Tsinghua University in Beijing to educate future leaders about China. At over $575 million, the program is modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship and is the single largest philanthropic effort in China’s history, coming largely from international donors.

Schwarzman is co-chair of the board of trustees of Schwarzman Scholars. In 2007, Schwarzman donated $100 million to the New York Public Library, on whose board he serves. Schwarzman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Business Council, the Business Roundtable, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is a former co-chair of the Partnership for New York City and serves on the boards of the Asia Society and New York-Presbyterian Hospital as well as the advisory board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. He is a trustee of the Frick Collection in New York City and chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Schwarzman holds an AB from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management and on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors.

RAMEZ SOUSOU AB ’87, MBA ’92

United Kingdom | Daycrest Holdings

Ramez Sousou is chairman of Daycrest Holdings, a private family office investing in purpose-driven and entrepreneur-led growth companies.

He was founder of TowerBrook Capital Partners, where he was co-CEO and then co-chair until his retirement in 2024. Under his leadership, TowerBrook grew over 25 years from a start-up into a global investment firm managing funds across three investment platforms: private equity, structured opportunities, and impact investments. TowerBrook was the first mainstream private equity firm to achieve B Corp Certification, which recognizes organizations that meet the highest standards of verified environmental and social impact.

Before founding TowerBrook, Sousou was co-CEO of Soros Private Equity Partners and a member of the management committee at Soros Fund Management. Prior to that, he was a senior member of the principal investments group at Goldman Sachs. He started his career in the mergers group at Morgan Stanley.

Sousou serves on the board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Global Advisory Council of Harvard University, and the U.S./Middle East Project. He is also the chair of the steering committees of the Gaza Health Alliance and Teach for Palestine. His past board memberships include Habitat for Humanity International, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), the Lambeth Trust, and the steering committee of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism. Additionally, he was the founding chairman of the Private Equity Foundation (now known as Impetus Trust).

He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he concentrated in economics, and Harvard Business School.

RAMAKRISHNA SUDIREDDY

United States | Bento.Net and Bayfleet Holdings, LLC

Ramakrishna “Ram” Sudireddy is the founder and chairman of Bayfleet Holdings LLC, a private venture investment firm, and the founder and CEO of Bento.net, a disruptor of dental insurance.

A 28-year veteran of the software and semiconductor industry, Sudireddy got his start as a computer and electrical engineer at the University of Massachusetts before going to work at Bell Labs, where he was the chief architect and lead designer for a number of highly complex application-specific integrated circuits. He left Bell Labs to found Cimaron Communication in 1996, which was sold to AMCC, where he served as senior vice president, general manager, and chief technology officer, managing a worldwide group of more than 1,000 engineers. From 2005 to 2010, Sudireddy served as chairman of the board at Sanovi Technologies, which provides disaster recovery and business continuity software for enterprise customers. The company was sold to IBM. He later founded CHiL Semiconductor, which was acquired by International Rectifier in 2011. Recently he founded a company called Bento.net to provide affordable oral health access to millions of Americans. Bento is an alternative to dental insurance. 

Sudireddy received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Nagarjuna University in India and his graduate degree in computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a member of the Harvard Divinity School’s Dean’s Council and a member of the HarvardX Kitchen Cabinet.

CLAUDE WASSERSTEIN

United States | Fine Day Ventures

Claude Wasserstein is the founder and CEO of Fine Day Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative and impactful technology, specifically in the financial, medical, aerospace, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and energy industries.

Born in France, Wasserstein is a graduate of Sweet Briar College and attended graduate school at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris. She began her career as a journalist for Newsweek, working out of the publication’s Paris bureau. Prior to her investment career, she was a producer for CBS News, where she worked in the network’s Dubai, Belfast, London, and Paris bureaus. In 1993, she won an Emmy for an investigative series featured on CBS’s 48 Hours.

Wasserstein is a trustee of the King Hussein Cancer Center Foundation, the American Hospital in Paris Foundation, and a life trustee at WNET Channel 13. She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the Metropolitan Museum International Council, and the Brookings Institution. In 2017, she was awarded the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest order of merit.

She resides in New York City and is the mother of Jack ’21, Dash ’22, and Lucy.

HANSJÖRG WYSS MBA ’65

Switzerland/United States | The Wyss Foundation

Hansjörg Wyss MBA ’65 has devoted a considerable portion of his personal energies and wealth to protecting open spaces and wild lands in the American West. He currently serves on the boards of The Wilderness Society, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and the Grand Canyon Trust. He is one of the founders of the AO Foundation, and remains an honorary member. Wyss serves as president of Fondation Beyeler and is a founder of Stiftung GegenwART in Basel, Switzerland, which funds art programs and scholarships for the Museum of Fine Arts Bern. Wyss is also chairman of the Wyss Foundation and the HJW Foundation, charitable organizations that work on environmental issues as well as social issues in immigration reform, health care for all Americans, fairness in the loan industry, and in women’s health and reproductive rights, among many other projects.

Wyss is the recipient of the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, the Beatrice Ellerin Award from Harvard Business School’s alumni association, and the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award.

Wyss received a master’s of science in civil and structural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and a number of honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.

MARJORIE M. T. YANG MBA ’76

Hong Kong | Esquel Group

Marjorie Yang is the chairman of Esquel Group and serves as chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), with the purpose of providing advice to the mayor of Seoul. She is also the appointed representative of Hong Kong, China, to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and a member of the Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers on Innovation and Strategic Development, a high-level body that advises the chief executive on Hong Kong’s future development and strategies for driving innovation. She served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from 2003 to 2018.

Yang is dedicated to promoting education and innovative technologies. She is the co-chair of the advisory board of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the chairperson of the steering committee of CoolThink@JC, which was created and is funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. She also serves as a member of various advisory boards, including Harvard University, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and Guilin Tourism University. She was the chairman of the council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for six years until 2015.

Yang is a strong believer in sustainable development and environmental conservation and serves on the advisory council for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in China. 

Yang is an independent nonexecutive director for Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Ltd.

SIDDHARTH YOG MBA ’04

India | The Xander Group Inc.

Siddharth Yog MBA ’04 is the founding partner of the Xander Group Inc., an investment firm headquartered in Singapore. Yog has been involved in all aspects of development of the firm since founding it in 2005. He chaired the investment committee for Xander Investment Management, the firm’s private equity arm, until September 2016, and until December 2014 he was the chair of the credit committee for Xander Finance, the firm’s Indian nonbank finance subsidiary. He is currently building Yuj Ventures, the group’s early stage investing platform. Xander has $3 billion assets under management across private equity funds, managed accounts, direct public and private investments, and partnerships.

In 2007, Yog founded Virtuous Retail and currently serves as chairman of Virtuous Retail South Asia Pte. Ltd., its Singapore-based joint venture with a leading European pension fund that has designed, developed, owns, and operates a portfolio of 10 million square feet of community-focused shopping centers in India.

Yog received an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School and was elected a Baker Scholar. He was also elected president of his class. Earlier, he earned an honors degree in economics from the University of Delhi and was elected head of the Students Union.

From 2014 to 2019, Yog served on the faculty of Harvard Business School. As senior lecturer of Business Administration, he designed and taught an MBA elective on investing in emerging markets. He is also cofounder and member of the governing body of the liberal arts–focused, not-for-profit Ashoka University in India, a member of the board of trustees of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) in Cambridge, and a member of the Lincoln Center Global Council in New York.

PAOLO ZAPPAROLI MBA ’94

Italy | 92 Ventures

Paolo Zapparoli MBA ’94 leads 92 Ventures, a family office investing in private and public investments and real estate.

Prior to 92 Ventures, Zapparoli was principal and chief executive officer of Synergo SGR SpA., a private equity firm investing with Italian entrepreneurs. Zapparoli managed Synergo from 2006 until the end of 2016.

Prior to joining Synergo, Zapparoli was with AIG Capital Partners, which he joined in 1999. He initially served as the chief executive officer of AIG Blue Voyage Fund and then as a managing director at AIG Capital Partners in New York.

In 1996, Zapparoli established the Istanbul office of Bain-Cuneo, a management consulting company. He went on to develop Bain-Cuneo’s office into Turkey’s second-largest management consulting business in the country.

Prior to that, he held other positions, including serving as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in New York from 1994 to 1996; as assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble in Rome from 1990 to 1992; and as a research and development engineer at Telettra, Milano, and Granger Telettra in Santa Clara, California, from 1988 to 1990.

In addition to his MBA from Harvard Business School, Zapparoli has a degree in electrical engineering summa cum laude from Polytechnic University of Milan and a graduate degree in digital signal processing from Cefriel Graduate School of Milan.

Zapparoli is married to Elif B. Bilgi MBA ’94, a managing director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

JAIME A. ZOBEL DE AYALA II AB ’81, MBA ’87

Philippines | Ayala Corporation

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II is the chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, one of the largest business groups in the Philippines, with interests in real estate, banking, telecommunications, water, power, industrial technologies, infrastructure, healthcare, and education. Outside the Ayala group, he is a member of various business and socio-civic organizations in the Philippines and abroad, including the JP Morgan International Council, JP Morgan Asia Pacific Council, and Mitsubishi Corporation International Advisory Council.

He sits on the board of the Singapore Management University and on various advisory boards of Harvard University, including the Global Advisory Council, HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors, and HBS Asia-Pacific Advisory Board, which he chairs. He is chairman emeritus of the Asia Business Council, and was the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council from 2010–15.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit in 2009, the Philippine Legion of Honor with the rank of Grand Commander in 2010, and the Order of Mabini with the rank of Commander in 2015 by the President of the Philippines. In 2017, he was recognized as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer for his work in sustainable business strategy and operations. The first SDG Pioneer from the Philippines, he was one of 10 individuals recognized for championing sustainability and the pursuit of the 17 SDGs in business.

He received his AB in economics (cum laude) from Harvard University in 1981 and MBA from Harvard Business School in 1987.