Hamid Biglari

Hamid Biglari is currently Chief Operating Officer of the Institutional Client Group of Citigroup, which represents Citigroup's global investment banking and trading business. Citi Markets and Banking is a $1.3 trillion asset     business, operates in almost 100 countries, and over the past several years has accounted for almost two-fifths of Citigroup's total earnings.

Prior to his current role, Hamid was the Global Head of Investment Banking for Financial Institutions in Citigroup. In this role, he advised chief executives of the world's leading financial institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia on their strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and capital-raising needs.

Previous to that, he was Head of Corporate Strategy and a member of the Management Committee at Citigroup, jointly reporting to Messrs. Sanford I. Weill and Robert E. Rubin. In that seat, he worked with the senior management of Citigroup on all major group-wide strategic, corporate governance, organizational structure, and risk management decisions.

Prior to joining Citigroup in 2000, Hamid was a partner at McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm, where he co-led the Firm's global financial institutions consulting practice. His experience base spans the entire spectrum of consumer and wholesale financial services.

Prior to that, Hamid was a theoretical research physicist with rank of Associate Professor at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory, the nation's leading center for controlled thermonuclear fusion research.

Hamid is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Graham Windham, the nation's oldest non-profit organization dedicated to the needs of under-privileged children, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Trinity School in New York City.

Hamid 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.