List of Wharton School alumni
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has over 92,000 alumni in 150 countries. As of 2014, there are approximately 79,280 alumni in North America, 5,660 in Asia, 4,510 in Europe, 1,370 in the Caribbean and Latin America, 930 in Africa and the Middle East, and 380 in Australia and New Zealand.
This is a list of notable Wharton School alumni.
Academia
- Cleo W. Blackburn, educator
- William Frederick Boulding, dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
- Mark Burstein, academic administrator
- Amos Eiran, Israeli President of the University of Haifa
- Ramchandran Jaikumar, Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
- Steve Salbu, dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Louis B. Schwartz, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Benn Steil, economist and writer
- George Taylor, "Father of American Arbitration", Department of Labor Hall of Honor Inductee, and namesake of the Taylor Law
Business and industry
- Laurent Adamowicz, French businessman, entrepreneur, lecturer, author, and public health advocate
- Anil Ambani, chairman, Reliance Group
- Ayman Asfari, British-Syrian billionaire, CEO of Petrofac
- Beth Axelrod, businesswoman and current Vice President of Employee Experience at Airbnb
- Victor Barnett, former chairman of Burberry
- Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, chairman of Interserve
- Mitchell J. Blutt, CEO of Consonance Capital
- George Bradt, businessman
- Julian A. Brodsky, founder, chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation
- John Browett, British businessman; former chief executive of the Dunelm Group and Monsoon Accessorize; senior vice-president of retail at Apple Inc.
- Rosalind Brewer, businesswoman and COO of Starbucks
- Charles Butt, chairman and CEO of H-E-B
- Robert Castellini, owner of Cincinnati Reds
- Bill Conner, business executive
- Sundar Pichai, Google CEO
- Sashi Reddi, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, technologist, and philanthropist
- Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
- Sachin Pilot, politician
- Arthur D. Collins Jr., chairman and CEO of Medtronic
- Anthony Connelly, president and CEO of Disney Cruise Line
- Robert Crandall, chairman and CEO of American Airlines
- William J. DeLaney III, CEO of Sysco
- Donny Deutsch, chairman and CEO of Deutsch Inc. and DHL
- Michael DiCandilo, CFO and executive vice president of AmerisourceBergen
- José Aurélio Drummond Jr., Brazilian businessman and CEO of BRF S.A.
- Dominique Heriard Dubreuil, CEO of Rémy Cointreau
- Mike Eskew, chairman and CEO of UPS
- John L. Flannery, chairman and CEO of General Electric Company
- Fred Fraenkel Vice Chairman of Cowen Group
- Rakesh Gangwal, chairman and CEO of US Airways
- Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group
- Robert B. Goergen, founder, chairman and CEO of Blyth
- Chip Goodyear, CEO of BHP Billiton
- Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson
- Sanjay Govil, Indian-American business executive
- Leonard I. Green, founding partner of Leonard Green & Partners
- Nilesh Gupta, managing director of Lupin Limited
- Adam Jay Harrison, defense industry entrepreneur and innovator
- Jon Huntsman Sr., founder, chairman and CEO of Huntsman Corporation
- Steve Ives, serial entrepreneur in information technology
- Waleed Iqbal, partner at Lexium Law, Senator
- Reginald Jones, former chairman and CEO of General Electric
- Anne Sceia Klein, businesswoman and communications specialist
- Gerard Kleisterlee, former CEO and president of Philips
- Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman and co-CEO of Fuji Xerox
- Chester Koo, Taiwanese businessman
- Leslie Koo, Taiwanese businessman
- Anil Kumar, management consultant who pled guilty to insider trading
- Leonard Lauder, CEO and chairman, Estée Lauder
- Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco
- Hettie Simmons Love, first African-American to earn an MBA from Wharton, in 1947
- Jho Low, international criminal in money laundering
- Mauricio Macri, former mayor of Buenos Aires City, current president of Argentina
- Victoria Mars, chairman, Mars, Incorporated
- Matthew Mellon of businessman, former chairman of the New York Republican State Committee’s finance committee
- Gayle Laakmann McDowell founder, consultant, coder, speaker and author of Cracking the Coding Interview
- Alan Miller, founder and CEO of Universal Health Services
- Aditya Mittal, president and CFO of Mittal Steel Company
- Pushkar Mukewar, co-founder and co-CEO of Drip Capital
- Christian Ngan, Cameroonian businessman, entrepreneur and owner of Adlyn Holdings and the Madlyn Cazalis Group
- Phebe Novakovic, chairman and chief executive officer of General Dynamics
- Manuel Pangilinan, chairman and CEO of First Pacific
- Nelson Peltz, CEO of Triarc Companies
- Jay Penske, board of directors of the Entrepreneurial School at the Wharton School
- Jeffrey E. Perelman, businessman, investor, philanthropist, founder, chairman and CEO of JEP Management
- Raymond G. Perelman, businessman, philanthropist, founder, chairman and CEO of RGP Holdings
- Ronald O. Perelman, chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Group
- Lewis E. Platt, chairman and CEO of Boeing
- J.D. Power III, founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power and Associates
- Edmund T. Pratt Jr., CEO and chairman emeritus, Pfizer
- Ruthann Quindlen, Director, Rovi Corporation
- Shailesh Rao, Canadian businessman; former Vice President International Operation at Twitter; head of India and SE Asia at TPG Growth
- Brian L. Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation
- John Sculley, CEO of Pepsi
- Joseph Segel, founder of over 20 companies, most notably QVC and Franklin Mint
- Toots Shor, New York City saloonkeeper
- Ashmeet Sidana, businessman, entrepreneur and venture capitalist
- Jeffrey S. Sloan, Global Payments CEO
- Peter A. Smith, British businessman, former Chairman of Savills and current Director of N M Rothschild & Sons
- Brian Stafford, businessman and CEO of Diligent Corporation
- Herbert D. Strauss, CEO and chairman of Grey Advertising Agency.
- Anderson Tanoto, businessman and philanthropist
- Nicholas F. Taubman, CEO and chairman of Advance Auto Parts
- James S. Tisch, CEO of Loews Corporation
- Nancy Wang, businesswoman and founder
- Stuart Weitzman, founder and CEO of Stuart Weitzman
- Gary L. Wilson, chairman and CEO of Northwest Airlines
- William Wrigley Jr., founder and CEO of Wrigley Company
- Art Wrubel, private equity investor, founder of Wesley Capital Management and a minority owner of the Philadelphia 76ers
- Klaus Zumwinkel, former chairman and CEO of Deutsche Post
Finance
- Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia
- Tom Bayer, member of the board of directors of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
- Lauren Bessette, Banker, sister of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
- Alfred Berkeley, former president and vice-chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
- Richard A. Bloch, founder and CEO of H&R Block
- Mitchell J. Blutt, founder and chairman of Consonance Capital
- Boediono, governor of Bank Indonesia, the Central Bank of Indonesia
- Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
- Steven A. Cohen, founder of SAC Capital Advisors
- Pridiyathorn Devakula, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand
- Jamie Dinan, investor and founder of York Capital Management
- William P. Egan, founding partner of Alta Communications, founding partner of Marion Equity Partners
- Catherine Austin Fitts, managing member, Solari Advisors
- Dawn Fitzpatrick, global head of Equities, Multi-Asset and O'Connor at UBS Asset Management
- Bradley Fried, British economist and writer
- Marcos Galperin, founder and CEO of Mercado Libre
- Ashish Goyal, first visually impaired trader in the world
- C. Robert Henrikson, chairman, president and CEO of MetLife
- Vernon Hill, founder, chairman and CEO of Commerce Bank
- Henry Jackson, founder and CEO of Merchant Equity Partners
- Robert S. Kapito, founder and president of BlackRock
- Vivek Kulkarni, founder and MD of Brickwork Ratings
- Jeffrey Alfred Legum, president and CEO of The Park Circle Motor Company
- Alexander Lloyd, venture capitalist
- Adriano B. Lucatelli, Swiss manager and businessperson
- Peter Lynch, vice chairman, Fidelity
- William E. Macaulay, CEO and chairman of First Reserve Corporation
- Howard Marks, founder of Oaktree Capital
- Michael Milken, inventor of the high-yield bond market; convicted of securities reporting violations and permanently barred from the securities industry
- Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global and Breakthrough Prize Foundation
- Ken Moelis, founder of Moelis & Company
- Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
- John Neff, chairman of Wellington Management
- Daniel Och, founder of Och-Ziff Capital Management
- Stephen M. Peck, philanthropist and co-founder of Weiss, Peck & Greer
- Douglas L. Peterson, CEO of S&P Global
- Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet, Inc./Google, Inc.; former CFO of Morgan Stanley
- Frank Quattrone, founder of the Technology Groups at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse; founder of Qatalyst Partners
- Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund CEO of Galleon Group; convicted of insider trading
- Larry Robbins, founder of Glenview Capital Management
- Eileen Clarkin Rominger, CIO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Barry Rosenstein, hedge fund manager
- Jacqui Safra, Swiss investor, owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster
- Durreen Shahnaz, founder of Impact Investment Exchange
- Michael Steinhardt, founder of Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz and Company
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, founder of Empirica Capital; author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness
- Paul Wachter, businessman and investment advisor
- Jacob Wallenberg, chairman of Investor AB
- Alan Wilzig, entrepreneur and investor
- Robert Wolf, president and CEO of UBS Investment Bank Americas
- Peter Wuffli, former CEO of UBS AG
- Martin Zweig, investment advisor, author of Winning on Wall Street
Journalism
- David Vise, Pulitzer Prize winner, Washington Post
Law
- Herbert B. Cohen, judge
- David N. Feldman, attorney
- William A. Reuben, investigative journalist
- Maxwell E. Seidman, lawyer and Democratic politician
Media
- Walter Annenberg, founder and CEO of TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Triangle Publications
- Jim Bankoff, businessman, chairman and chief executive officer of Vox Media
- Anthony Connelly, president and CEO of Disney Cruise Line
- Donny Deutsch, chairman of Deutsch, Inc. and host of CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
- Wendy Finerman, Oscar-winning film producer
- Lindsay Gardner, Media executive, Layer3 TV chief content officer, Democratic strategist and fundraiser
- Aaron Karo, author and comedian
- Laura Lang, former CEO of Time, Inc.
- Gerald Lestz, columnist, author, publisher, founder of the Demuth Museum
- Warren Lieberfarb, CEO and president of Warner Home Video
- Jay Livingston, Oscar-winning composer
- John D. MacDonald, writer of novels and short stories
- Harold W. McGraw III, chairman and CEO of McGraw-Hill
- William S. Paley, founder of Columbia Broadcasting System
- Manuel V. Pangilinan, president and CEO of Philippine Telephone Company
- Robert B. Sinclair, film and theater director
- Gregg Spiridellis, founder of JibJab Media Inc
- Kidlat Tahimik, Filipino filmmaker, National Artist of the Philippines
- Laurence Tisch, former CEO of CBS
- Cenk Uygur, radio talk show host, The Young Turks, Air America Radio; columnist for The Huffington Post
- Rick Yune, actor, screenwriter, producer, martial artist
- Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report
Military
- Roni Alsheikh, Israeli intelligence officer and head of the Israel Police
Music
- Hoodie Allen, aka Steven Markowitz, hip-hop artist and rapper
- Moe Jaffe, songwriter and bandleader
Politics and nonprofit
- Susan Abrams, CEO of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
- Armand Arreza, former administrator and CEO of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
- Robert B. Asher, politician and businessma. Co-chairman of the board of directors of Asher's Chocolates in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania's committeeman on the Republican National Committee
- Ernesto Pérez Balladares, former president of the Government of Panama
- David Campbell Bannerman, Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the East of England
- Louis A. Bloom, Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County, Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County
- Boediono, vice president, Minister for the Economy, Minister of Finance, Indonesia
- William Brennan, associate justice, US Supreme Court
- Andy Carter - British Conservative Member of Parliament for Warrington South.
- Patrick Chovanec, business professor at Tsinghua University
- Bill Cobey, former U.S. representative from North Carolina's 4th congressional district; director of the Jesse Helms Center
- Zehnder Confair, Pennsylvania State Senator
- James DePreist, director and conductor, Oregon Symphony
- Ron Dermer, Israeli ambassador to the United States
- Connie K. Duckworth, founder of Arzu Hope, managing director and first woman sales/trading partner, Goldman Sachs
- Moonis Elahi, Pakistani businessman and politician
- Jonathan Fielding, former chairman of Truth Campaign, director of Public Health for Los Angeles County, Philanthropist, professor, UCLA School of Public Health
- Edwin Feulner, president of American Heritage Foundation
- Gary Gensler, former chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Sila María González Calderón, Puerto Rican senator and former First Lady
- Kate Gallego, mayor of Phoenix
- Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D., M.B.A., former president and CEO of Partners HealthCare
- John J. Hafer, former Maryland state senator
- Alfred Irving Hallowell, president of the American Anthropological Association
- Patrick T. Harker, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia ; former dean of the Wharton School
- Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv
- Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Interior, Pakistan
- Paul Judge, chairman of the British Royal Society of Arts, founder of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University
- Neel Kashkari, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis ; Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury; 2014 candidate for California governor
- Ted Kaufman, former U.S. Senator from Delaware
- Matin Ahmed Khan, dean and director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, 1972–77
- Ann McLaughlin Korologos, Former U.S. Labor Secretary and Former Chair of the Aspen Institute
- Frank Lavin, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; former United States Ambassador to Singapore
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Lawrence Lessig, founder and director of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Peter Lorange, president of IMD
- Reggie Love, former body man for President Barack Obama
- Cardozo M. Luna, Undersecretary of Department of National Defense; former Philippine Ambassador to the Netherlands; former vice chief of staff and lieutenant general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
- Ann Dore McLaughlin, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Winnie Monsod, former director-general of National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines; former member of the UN Committee for Development Planning from 1987 to 2000; former member of the board of trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute
- Philip D. Murphy, U.S. Ambassador to Germany ; current and 56th governor of New Jersey
- John W. Murphy, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Michael Nutter, former mayor of Philadelphia
- Peter O'Donnell, Texas state Republican chairman in the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist
- Alassane Dramane Ouattara, president, Ivory Coast; governor of the Central Bank of West African States; Deputy Head of the International Monetary Fund
- Corrado Passera, former CEO of Banca Intesa of Italy; Italian Minister of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport
- Frances Perkins, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, first female U.S. Presidential Cabinet Member, and architect of Social Security system
- Douglas Peters, Canadian economist and politician
- Sachin Pilot, Indian politician
- John Quelch, dean, London Business School
- Russell Redenbaugh, member of the United States Civil Rights Commission
- Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut
- Eli Rosenbaum, director of Office of Special Investigations
- Manuel Roxas II, member of the House of Representatives, senator, Secretary of Trade and Industry, Secretary of Transportation and Communications and Secretary of Interior and Local Government in the Philippines
- Andrew Saul, chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, vice-chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority; investor; former owner/CEO of Brooks Brothers
- David Scott, US Congressman from Georgia
- Richard Stearns, president of World Vision
- Nao Takasugi, California State Assembly and mayor of Oxnard, California
- William J. Trent, executive director of the United Negro College Fund
- Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
- Rexford Tugwell, Governor of Puerto Rico
- Mohammad Uzair, dean and director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
- Cesar Virata, Prime Minister and Secretary of Finance, Philippines
- Charles Wall, resident superintendent of George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon for 39 years, starting in 1937
- John H. Ware III, U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania
- , billionaire real estate mogul, and 45th President of the United StatesAdlai Wertman, professor of clinical management and organization, USC Marshall School of Business
- Bob Ziegelbauer, Wisconsin politician
Real estate
- Edward J. Lewis, chairman and CEO of Oxford Development Company
- Pete Rummell, former chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Imagineering and St. Joe Company
- Jeffrey Sutton, president of Wharton Properties
- Donald Trump Jr., executive vice president of the Trump Organization
- Ivanka Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization
Sports
- Frank Chapot, equestrian
- Paul Friedberg, Olympic fencer
- Austin Gunsel, football executive and FBI agent
- Justin Tuck, New York Giants defensive end
- Joshua Harris, principal owner of the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia 76ers
- Bruce Manson, tennis player
- Ugonna Onyekwe, British-Nigerian former professional basketball player
Technology
- Sam Hamadeh, founder of Vault.com Inc.
- Mark D. Kingdon, CEO of Linden Lab, parent company of Second Life
- Josh Kopelman, founder of Half.com
- Curtis Lee, founder and CEO of Luxe
- Joey Levin, CEO of IAC
- Marc Lore, founder and CEO of Jet.com, acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion in August 2016
- Elon Musk, co-founder and ex-CEO of PayPal; founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors Chairman of SolarCity
- Ben Nelson, CEO of Snapfish
- Peter M. Nicholas, founder, CEO and chairman of Boston Scientific
- Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and chair of Emerson Collective
- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
- Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga
- Lewis E. Platt, former chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard
- Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet, parent company of Google
- Josh Resnick, founder, CEO and president of Pandemic Studios Inc
- John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc.
- James L. Vincent, chairman and CEO of Biogen Idec
- Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn
- Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures
Writers
- Susan Braudy, author and journalist
- Nina Godiwalla, author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
- Jerry Mander, environmentalist and author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
- James Martin, Jesuit priest and writer
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, researcher in risk and uncertainty, originator of the Black Swan theory; author of Fooled by Randomness
- Clarissa Sligh, photographer and book artist
- Barney Berlinger, decathlete and winner of the Sullivan Award
- Mark DeRosa, Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals
- Douglas Glanville, Major League Baseball Player, MLB Analyst
- Reem Kassis, author of The Palestinian Table
Other
- Nirav Modi, Indian businessman, jewellery designer, diamond merchant and fraudster
- Mehmet Oz, American physician, writer, and television personality.