Stephen A. Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, a leading global investment firm with over $1 trillion in Assets Under Management (as of March 31, 2024) with leading businesses across asset classes including private equity, real estate, hedge funds, credit, infrastructure, and life sciences.

He is an active philanthropist whose major giving has helped establish a new Centre for the Humanities at the University of Oxford; create a new college at MIT to study artificial intelligence, including the opportunities and challenges it presents; build a first-of-its-kind student center at Yale; and found an international fellowship program, Schwarzman Scholars, at Tsinghua University in Beijing to educate future leaders about China.

Mr. Schwarzman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Business Roundtable, and International Business Council of the WEF. Among other honors, he was named one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” and Forbes’ Top 50 “Most Powerful People”.

In 2019, he published his first book What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, a New York Times Best Seller which draws from his experiences in business, philanthropy, and public service.