Raymond J. McGuire

Raymond J. McGuire was named president of Lazard in April 2023. Prior to joining Lazard, he held a 13-year term as Citigroup’s global head of corporate and investment banking. In this role Mr. McGuire led a $20bn+ global business. Afterwards, he was the vice chairman of Citigroup and chairman of Citi’s banking, capital markets, and advisory business. Previously, Raymond was the global co-head of mergers & acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, a managing director in the mergers & acquisitions group of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and was one of the original members of Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc. He started his career in 1984 in the mergers & acquisitions group of The First Boston Corporation. He has personally advised on transactions across global industries and geographies valued at more than $750 billion.

Raymond is currently a member of the corporate boards of the Hess Corporation and Vornado Realty Trust. He holds leadership roles on several nonprofit boards, including those of the American Museum of Natural History, the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, the Hotchkiss School, the New York Public Library, the Regional Plan Association (Chairman), the Studio Museum in Harlem (Chairman), and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received his MBA and JD from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School and an AB from Harvard College.