About Joan and Sandy Weill
Sandy Weill, a renowned global leader in banking and finance, served as president of American Express and later as chair and CEO of Citigroup, where he helped build one of the world’s most influential financial institutions. In 1998, Mr. Weill was the recipient of Financial World magazine’s CEO of the Year Award and received the same honor from Chief Executive magazine in 2002. Today, he is chair of the Weill Family Foundation; founder and chair emeritus of the National Academy Foundation, a national education nonprofit that has supported more than half a million students; president of Carnegie Hall; chair emeritus of Weill Cornell Medicine; and honorary chair of Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Joan Weill is chair emerita of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where she served as chair for 14 years and for whom the company’s theater is named. She has long championed women’s health as co-chair of the New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center’s Women’s Health Symposium and she founded the Sonoma Valley Hospital /UCSF Health Women’s Health Symposium on the West Coast. She has also held numerous leadership roles supporting the arts, wellness and community well-being. Joan and Sandy have been married for 70 years and they are recipients of the 2009 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Award; 2017 Kennedy Center Award for the Human Spirit and 2022 Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy.
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