Michael R. Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and three-term mayor of whose in business, government, and philanthropy have made him a global leader on climate change, , , and other critical issues facing America and the world.

In 1966, after graduating from and , Bloomberg was hired by a financial services firm, Salomon Brothers – but when Salomon was acquired in 1981, he was let go. With a vision for a company that would bring greater transparency and fairness to the financial system, he launched a small startup in a one-room office. Bloomberg LP has grown every year since it was founded and today employs some 20,000 people in 120 countries.

Elected mayor just weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Bloomberg led New York City’s resurgence. Bloomberg reduced carbon emissions by 13 percent, increased New Yorkers’ life expectancy by three years, and – despite the Great Recession – led the city to record job growth. He also launched the Young Men’s Initiative, a public-private partnership to improve the education, employment, and health of young men of color that became a model for President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge.

Bloomberg Philanthropies works on initiatives in public health, education, the environment, government , and the arts, as well as a series of efforts to fight the coronavirus. Bloomberg also launched the Greenwood Initiative to increase Black wealth and address inequities – beginning with a $100 million gift to reduce debt for students at the nation’s four historically Black medical schools and improve health outcomes in Black communities. He has also supported those schools to expand their mobile COVID-19 vaccine operations. To date, Bloomberg has given away more than $11 billion.

He is the father of two daughters, Emma and Georgina, and has two grandchildren.

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