Program Leadership
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Founding Trustee of Schwarzman Scholars
Stephen A. Schwarzman founded Schwarzman Scholars to give the most talented future leaders the power to change the course of history.
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Julia Zupko
Director of the Global Alumni Network and Professional Development
International Advisory Board

Kevin Rudd
Former Prime Minister Australia

Condoleezza Rice
66th United States Secretary Of State

Chen Ning Yang
Nobel Laureate, Honorary Director Institute Of Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Henry Paulson
74th United States Secretary Of The Treasury

Tung Chee Hwa
Vice Chairman, National Committee Of The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference

John Thornton
Chairman, Brookings Institution Director Of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University

Richard Haass
President, Council On Foreign Relations

Tony Blair
Former Prime Minister of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Yo-Yo Ma
World-Renowned American Cellist

Norman Chan
Former Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Graham Allison
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
In Emeritus

Nicolas Sarkozy
Former President Of France

Robert Rubin
Co-Chairman, Council On Foreign Relations

Richard Levin
Former President, Yale University

Sir Colin Lucas
Former Vice-Chancellor, University Of Oxford, Former Warden Rhodes Trust

Richard Brodhead
President Emeritus, Duke University

Robert Dudley
Group Chief Executive, BP
In Memoriam

Colin Powell – In Memoriam
65th United States Secretary Of State

Sir James Wolfensohn – In Memoriam
9th President, World Bank Group

Henry Kissinger
56th United States Secretary Of State

Brian Mulroney
Former Prime Minister Canada
Academic Advisory Council

Dr. Michael Cappello
Yale School of Medicine

Jane Edwards
Senior Associate Dean, Yale College

William C. Kirby
Professor of Business, Harvard Business School

Yinuo Li
Senior Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation China Program

Yingyi Qian
Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
The people who have been in our program are natural leaders. As individuals and as a cohort, we’ve found that Schwarzman Scholars can accomplish just about everything and anything.