List of Wharton School alumni


The list of notable Wharton School alumni are graduates of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton offers four degree programs: undergraduate, an MBA, an EMBA, and a Doctoral degree. As of 2023, there are approximately 105,000 alumni in over 150 countries, including 79,280 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.

Academia

NameClass yearDegreeNotabilityReference
1952AMformer vice-chancellor of the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology; chairman of Odisha State Planning Board; chairman of Odisha's First State Finance Commission
1986PhDDean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
MBAAcademic administrator at Lawrence University
Business professor at Tsinghua University
President of the University of Haifa, Israel
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia ; former dean of the Wharton School
Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Dean and director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, 1972–77
Board of directors of the Entrepreneurial School at the Wharton School
Dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006–2014
Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Economist and writer; senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations; founder and editor of the journal International Finance
1983MBAResearcher in risk and uncertainty, originator of the Black Swan theory; author of the Incerto.
Considered the "father of American arbitration," Department of Labor Hall of Honor inductee; namesake of the Taylor Law
Professor of clinical management and organization, USC Marshall School of Business
Dean and director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
Dean, London Business School

Business, industry, and finance

Business and industry

NameClass yearDegreeNotabilityReference
French entrepreneur; lecturer; author; public health advocate
1983MBAChairman of Reliance Group
British-Syrian billionaire; CEO of Petrofac
Vice-president of Employee Experience at Airbnb
1954BSFormer chairman of Burberry
1975MBAChairman of Interserve
1992MBACEO of Related Companies
1987MBACEO of Consonance Capital
1985MBAFounder and chairman of PrimeGenesis; CEO of J.D. Power's Power Information Network
British businessman; former chief executive of the Dunelm Group and Monsoon Accessorize; senior vice-president of retail at Apple Inc.
COO of Starbucks, former president and CEO of Sam's Club
Chairman and CEO of H-E-B
Safra Cata1983BSFormer CEO of Oracle Corporation
1994BSHotelier
Bill ChisholmMBACIO of Symphony Technology Group; Owner of the Boston Celtics
Chairman and CEO of Medtronic
President and CEO of Disney Cruise Line
1960MBAChairman and CEO of American Airlines
CEO of Sysco
1979BSChairman and CEO of Deutsch NY and DHL
1982BSCFO and EVP of AmerisourceBergen
Brazilian businessman; CEO of BRF S.A.
CEO of Rémy Cointreau
Chairman and CEO of UPS
Chairman and CEO of General Electric Company
Manufacturer, art patron, and philanthropist
1979MBAChairman and CEO of US Airways
1962MBAFounder, chairman and CEO of Blyth
CEO of BHP Billiton
1996MBACEO of Johnson & Johnson
M.D., M.B.A., former president and CEO of Partners HealthCare
Managing director of Lupin Limited
defense industry entrepreneur and innovator
Chairman, president and CEO of MetLife
1959BSFounder, chairman and CEO of Huntsman Corporation
Founder and CEO of Frank
1939BSFormer chairman and CEO of General Electric
Philanthropist and businessman
Businesswoman and communications specialist
Former CEO and president of Philips
Chairman and co-CEO of Fuji Xerox
Taiwanese businessman
Taiwanese businessman
Management consultant who pled guilty to insider trading
1954BSCEO and chairman of Estée Lauder
President and CEO of The Park Circle Motor Company
CEO of IAC
Chairman and CEO of Oxford Development Company
Businessman, former chairman of the New York Republican State Committee’s finance committee
Founder and CEO of Universal Health Services
President and CFO of ArcelorMittal
Cameroonian businessman, entrepreneur and owner of Adlyn Holdings and the Madlyn Cazalis Group
Chairman and CEO of General Dynamics
Chairman and CEO of First Pacific
Businessperson convicted of insider trading and securities fraud
President and CEO of Philippine Telephone Company
CEO of Triarc Companies
Businessman; philanthropist; founder, chairman and CEO of JEP Management
Businessman; philanthropist; founder, chairman and CEO of RGP Holdings
Chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Group
1966MBAChairman and CEO of Boeing
1987MBAPresident and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet, Inc. and Google, former CFO, Morgan Stanley
Founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power and Associates
CEO and chairman emeritus, Pfizer
Entrepreneur; venture capitalist; technologist; philanthropist
MBACEO of Canadian National Railway
1971MBAFormer chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Imagineering and St. Joe Company
1963MBACEO of Pepsi
Founder of over 20 companies, most notably QVC and Franklin Mint
New York City restaurateur
British businessman; director of Rothschild & Co; former chairman of Savills
Founder and CEO of Steignet
CEO and chairman of Grey Advertising Agency
BSPresident of Wharton Properties
Director of Royal Golden Eagle manufacturing conglomerate; philanthropist
CEO and chairman of Advance Auto Parts
1976MBACEO of Loews Corporation
Mark WalesFounder of Kill Katpture
1980, 1981BS, MBABanker, industrialist of the Swedish Wallenberg family
Founder and CEO of Stuart Weitzman
Chairman and CEO of Northwest Airlines
Founder and CEO of Wrigley Company
Former chairman and CEO of Deutsche Post
Papa Madiaw NdiayeChairman at Ecobank Transnational Inc

Finance

NameClass yearDegreeNotabilityReference
CEO of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia
Member of the board of directors of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Former president and vice-chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
1991Senior Blackstone executive, co-founder of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment
Founder and chairman of Consonance Capital
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Founder of SAC Capital Advisors
Investor and founder of York Capital Management
Founding partner of Alta Communications, founding partner of Marion Equity Partners
Managing member, Solari Advisors
Global head of Equities, Multi-Asset for O'Connor at UBS Asset Management
Vice-chairman of Cowen Group
Chairman of Goldman Sachs international
Founder and CEO of Mercado Libre
First visually impaired trader in the world
Founding partner of Leonard Green & Partners
1986EconomicsCo-founder of Apollo Global Management and owner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, the NHL's New Jersey Devils, and the NFL's Washington Commanders
Founder, chairman and CEO of Commerce Bank
Founder and CEO of Merchant Equity Partners
Founder and president of BlackRock
Founder of Brickwork Ratings
Managing Director and CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Venture capitalist
Swiss manager and businessperson
Former Fidelity Investments Magellan Fund manager; chairman of the Lynch Foundation; author
CEO and chairman of First Reserve Corporation
Founder of Oaktree Capital
Chairman and CEO of McGraw-Hill Financial
Inventor of the high-yield bond market; convicted of securities reporting violations and permanently barred from the securities industry
Founder of DST Global and Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Founder of Moelis & Company
Sequoia Capital
Chairman of Wellington Management
Founder of Och-Ziff Capital Management
Philanthropist and co-founder of Weiss, Peck & Greer
CEO of S&P Global
Hedge fund CEO of Galleon Group; convicted of insider trading
Founder of Glenview Capital Management
CIO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Hedge fund manager
Swiss investor, owner of Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster
Founder of BPEA EQT
Founder of Impact Investment Exchange
Founder of Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz and Company
Businessman and investment advisor
Chairman of Investor AB
Former CEO of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank
Entrepreneur and investor
President and CEO of UBS Investment Bank Americas
private equity investor; founder of Wesley Capital Management; minority owner of the Philadelphia 76ers
Former CEO of UBS AG
Investment advisor, author of Winning on Wall Street

Nonprofit and advocacy

NameClass yearDegreeNotabilityReference
President of American Heritage Foundation
Former chairman of Truth Campaign, director of Public Health for Los Angeles County, Philanthropist, professor, UCLA School of Public Health
President of the American Anthropological Association
Founder and chair of Emerson Collective
Chairman of the British Royal Society of Arts, founder of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University
Jesuit priest and writer
President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Founder and director of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
President of World Vision
Executive director of the United Negro College Fund
Resident superintendent of George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon for 39 years, starting in 1937

Politics and government

Politics

NameClass yearDegreeNotabilityReference
Politician and businessman. Co-chairman of the board of directors of Asher's Chocolates in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania's committeeman on the Republican National Committee
President of Panama
Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the East of England
Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County, Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County
Vice president, Minister for the Economy, Minister of Finance, Governor of Bank Indonesia, the Central Bank of Indonesia
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Puerto Rican senator ; former First Lady
British Conservative Member of Parliament for Warrington South
Former U.S. representative from North Carolina's 4th congressional district ; director of the Jesse Helms Center
Pennsylvania State Senator
Pakistani businessman and politician
MBACo-founder and former president of The Heritage Foundation
2012MBAMayor of Phoenix
1954BSFormer Maryland state senator
Mayor of Tel Aviv
1986MBAPakistani Minister for Interior
Pakistani senator from Punjab; chairperson of the Pakistan Senate Committee for Defense; partner at Lexium Law; law professor
U.S. Senator from Delaware
President of IMD
Former mayor of Buenos Aires City and president of Argentina
Did not graduatePresident of the Philippines
U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
U.S. Ambassador to Germany ; current and 56th governor of New Jersey
Mayor of Philadelphia
Texas state Republican chairman ; Dallas investor and philanthropist
President, Ivory Coast; governor of the Central Bank of West African States; Deputy Head of the International Monetary Fund
Canadian economist and politician
Indian politician
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
President of Peru
US Congressman from Georgia
Lawyer and Democratic politician
California State Assembly and mayor of Oxnard, California
1968BS45th and 47th President of the United States
Governor of Puerto Rico,
Indian Politician and Current Minister of Railways and Minister of IT and Communications
Senator of the Philippines, Secretary of Public Works and Highways, member of the House of Representatives from Las Pinas
1953MBAPrime Minister and Secretary of Finance of the Philippines
U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania
Wisconsin politician

Sports

Authors and journalists

NameClass yearDegreeNotabilityReference
Author and journalist
Author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
Environmentalist and author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Author
Author
2010, 2010BS, MBAAuthor of The Palestinian Table
Investigative journalist
Pulitzer Prize winner, Washington Post'

Other

NameClass yearDegreeNotabilityReference
First African-American to earn an MBA from Wharton, in 1947
Fugitive sought by authorities in Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States, regarding the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal
Businessman, jewellery designer, diamond merchant and fraudster
Class action attorney
2000BSSon of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, and executive vice president of The Trump Organization
1891PhDAmerican landscape architect, planning consultant, writer, founding member of the American Institute of Planners
MBATheologian, scholar, and author