Sanford I. Weill

Board of Governors

Citigroup

Sandy Weill is Chairman of the Weill Family Foundation, Chairman Emeritus of Citigroup and CEO of Casa Rosa Ventures. In 2017, Sandy was named to the World’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes in celebration of their centennial. In 2014, he was named to CNBC’s First 25, a definitive list of 25 people around the world who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter century. He is a former director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and has served on numerous corporate boards, including Hamilton Insurance Group (Chairman), United Technologies, AT&T, E. I. Du Pont Nemours and Company, and Koc Holding in Turkey. Sandy was the recipient of Financial World Magazine’s CEO of the Year Award in 1998 and received the same honor from Chief Executive Magazine in 2002.

In 2015, Sandy retired as Chairman of Weill Cornell Medicine after 20 years and is now Chairman Emeritus. He also retired as Chairman of Carnegie Hall in 2015 after serving in this capacity for 24 years and assumed the role of President, joining his mentor the late violinist Isaac Stern, as only the second person to hold the title of President since Carnegie Hall was established as a non-profit in 1960. Long a proponent of education, Mr. Weill instituted a joint program with the New York City Board of Education in 1980 that created the National Academy Foundation (NAF). Mr. Weill is the Founder and Chairman of NAF, which serves 112,208 students in 620 career-themed Academies of Finance, Hospitality and Tourism, Information Technology, Engineering and Health Sciences. In addition, Sandy is Chairman of the Executive Council at the University of California, San Francisco; Member of the Board of Visitors at the University of California, Berkeley; Member of the Chancellor’s Board of Advisors at the University of California, Davis; and Honorary Chair of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP). Sandy retired as Chairman of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, but remains on the Board. In 2016, Sandy retired as Chairman of Weill Hall and the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University.

Sandy has received honorary degrees from Bank Street College of Education; Howard University; Hofstra University; the University of New Haven; Sonoma State University; and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He is a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences and he and his wife of 65 years, Joan, are recipients of the 2009 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and 2017 Kennedy Center Award for the Human Spirit.