Reshma Kewalramani moved to the United States from Mumbai, India, at the age of 11, settling with her family on Long Island, New York. After graduating from medical school, she spent several years practicing medicine, conducting research, and teaching at Boston-area hospitals, specializing in nephrology. In 2004, Kewalramani entered the biotech industry, joining Amgen and rising to lead its US Medical Organization. In 2017, she returned to the Boston area to join Vertex Pharmaceuticals as chief medical officer and executive vice president of Global Medicines Development and Medical Affairs before being named CEO and president in April 2020. The first female leader of a major biotech, Kewalramani is a trustee at Massachusetts General Hospital and sits on the boards of Gingko Bioworks and the Biomedical Science Careers Program, an organization supporting underrepresented students to pursue STEM careers. The mother of twin sons, she holds a dual BA/MD degree from Boston University’s seven-year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program.

Depelsha Thomas McGruder is COO and treasurer of the Ford Foundation. Founded in 1936, with offices around the globe, the Ford Foundation leverages a $16 billion endowment to move the needle on a wide range of social justice issues. In addition, McGruder is founder of MOBB United, a nonprofit with more than 170,000 members that grew from a private Facebook group she started in 2016 after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Its partner organization, MOBB United for Social Change, advocates for policy change at the federal, state, and local levels to ensure Black boys and men are treated equitably. McGruder started her career as a news producer, editor, reporter, and anchor in Georgia before attending HBS. After receiving her MBA, she worked as a consultant with Accenture before joining Viacom, where she held a range of senior executive roles over nearly 17 years and led the launch of MTV Tres and Centric, now BET Her. Before joining the Ford Foundation, McGruder was COO at New York Public Radio. The mother of two sons, she holds a degree in broadcast journalism from Howard University, where she sits on the board of trustees.

Raymond J. McGuire has worked on Wall Street for nearly 40 years, advising on transactions valued at over $750 billion. He joined First Boston Corporation after receiving his MBA before moving on to Wasserstein & Perella, where he rose to the position of partner and managing director. In 1993, he joined Merrill Lynch as managing director, mergers & acquisitions; in 2000 he moved to Morgan Stanley, where he served as global co-head, mergers & acquisitions and advised on the $14.9 billion sale of Nabisco to Philip Morris. In 2005 he joined Citi, rising to vice chairman and chairman of banking, capital markets, and advisory. A longtime resident of New York City, McGuire ran for mayor of New York City in 2020 and sits on the boards of numerous civic and cultural institutions, including New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the New York Public Library, and the New York Museum of Natural History. In April 2023, he joined Lazard as president. The father to three children, McGuire holds a BA in English and American literature from Harvard University.

Antonis C. Samaras served as prime minister of Greece at a precarious moment in the country’s history, overseeing austerity measures and leading negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Banks, and Eurozone finance ministers to ultimately keep Greece in the Eurozone. Born in Athens, Samaras was elected to parliament in 1977 as a member of the New Democracy party at the age of 26. Currently serving his 14th term for Messinia, Samaras was in Kalamata in 1986 when a deadly earthquake struck his district’s largest city and continued to live on site for over a year to assist with recovery and rebuilding. Named Minister of Finance in 1989, he has also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1992. In 1993, Samaras founded the Political Spring party; in 2004 he returned to New Democracy and was elected to the European Parliament in Brussels; in 2007 he was re-elected to represent Messinia. As Minister of Culture, Samaras opened the new Acropolis Museum in 2009. The father of two children, he earned a BA in economics from Amherst College.

Stephen A. Schwarzman is chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Blackstone, the largest alternative asset manager in the world with nearly $1 trillion in assets under management. He started his career at Lehman Brothers, where, as head of global mergers and acquisitions, he oversaw the sale of Lehman to American Express in 1984. The following year, Schwarzman and former Lehman chairman and CEO Pete Peterson each invested $200,000 to launch Blackstone. In the years since its founding, the New York–based firm has expanded to 26 offices around the globe with investments in private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, insurance, and infrastructure, among others. Its institutional investors include sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and pension funds—some 31 million pensioners benefit from Blackstone’s performance, which has grown 11 percent year over year. Schwarzman established the Schwarzman Scholars program at Beijing’s Tsinghua University in 2016 and has given generously to multiple institutions, including Yale University, MIT, and Oxford University.