Hamid Biglari

Hamid Biglari is currently a Vice-Chairman of Citicorp, the main operating arm of Citigroup, a $60 billion revenue business with operations in over 100 countries. In that capacity, he has responsibility for driving strategy, allocating resources (e.g., capital, investments), and general business coordination across Citicorp’s main global business divisions and regions. He sits on Citigroup’s Senior Leadership Committee, the senior management group of the company.

Prior to that role, Dr. Biglari held a number of senior roles within the organization, including most recently as Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG), which represents the global investment banking, corporate banking, and trading and sales arm of Citigroup.

Prior to joining Citigroup, Dr. Biglari was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm, where he co-led the Firm’s investment banking consulting practice. His experience base spans the entire spectrum of consumer and wholesale financial services.

Prior to that, he was a theoretical research physicist at Princeton University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory, the nation’s leading center for controlled thermonuclear fusion research.

He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of Trinity Episcopal School Corporation. Dr. Biglari also sits on the Advisory Board of the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University.

In 2009. Dr. Biglari was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, given for outstanding contributions to the nation by immigrants.

Dr. Biglari holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University. Prior to that, he received a B.S. in Applied Physics and a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University, both with Distinction.