About Speaker

Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City for three terms. The technology startup he launched in 1981 to provide real-time data and analysis to the financial services industry has grown into a global company that now employs over 19,000 people in 73 countries. Bloomberg led the company for 20 years before running for public office, and since leaving City Hall in 2013, has resumed leadership of Bloomberg LP. Bloomberg was elected mayor less than two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Under his leadership, the city rebounded faster and stronger than expected on issues ranging from education to health to economic development. A lifelong philanthropist, Bloomberg founded, Bloomberg Philanthropies, which focuses on five main areas: public health, education, the environment, the arts, and government innovation. In 2014, Bloomberg was appointed to be the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change. In 2016, Bloomberg was named the World Health Organization’s Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases. Since November 2015, Bloomberg has served as the Chair of The Working Group on U.S. RMB Trading and Clearing. The objectives of the Working Group are to identify, evaluate, and recommend opportunities to develop and expand the trading, clearing, and settlement of RMB in the U.S. As a result of its recommendations, the first RMB clearing bank in the U.S. was designated by People's Bank of China in September 2016. Bloomberg graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School.