Fintech leader Peter Grauer joins Whitehead Institute Board of Directors

The Whitehead Institute Board of Directors has elected Peter Grauer, a business leader and philanthropist who served as the longtime chairman of Bloomberg LP, to a six-year term beginning in December 2025.

“We are very pleased to welcome Peter Grauer to the board,” says Board Chair Sarah Williamson. “Peter brings deep experience in business, science, and philanthropy, and we look forward to his wise counsel in the years to come.”

Grauer joined the Bloomberg Board of Directors in 1996 and became the fulltime chairman, president, and CEO in March 2002. After more than two decades as the top executive at the company, he was named Chairman Emeritus in 2023 and retired in 2025. 

Grauer is deeply engaged in many financial, academic, and philanthropic enterprises including as President of the Board of Trustees of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund in New York City, founding Chairman of the Community of Chairmen at the World Economic Forum, Chairman of the College Advising Corps, and founding Chairman of the U.S. 30% Club. He serves on the Board of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and on the Board of Trustees of the Wildlife Conservation Society, The WNET Group, and the Buzzards Bay Coalition. He is a trustee of The Economic Club of New York and Rockefeller University.

His contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Happy Warrior Award, Peterson Business Award, William Richardson Davie Award, Dean's Award for Distinguished Service to the College of Arts and Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Papal Order of Merit. He was also inducted into the North Carolina Media & Journalism Hall of Fame.

Grauer says of joining the Whitehead Institute Board of Directors, “Every day, the exceptional team at Whitehead is executing ground breaking biomedical research that will change how we live. To play a modest role in its success as a board member is most gratifying.”