Our Leadership

The Fink Center Board – the center’s primary advisory body – was established to advance the center’s strategic mission. Members of the board are transformative leaders in finance, and dedicated philanthropists, who share their industry expertise, provide strategic counsel, and draw upon their elite professional network, to elevate and expand the Fink Center’s market impact. We are immensely grateful for their active leadership, and their recognition of the important role UCLA Anderson has in advancing financial research and education.

Laurence D. Fink (B.A. ’74, MBA ‘76)

Chairman of the Board
Chairman & CEO, BlackRock, Inc.

Laurence D. Fink, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, Inc. He has led the firm since its founding in 1988, keeping client centric solutions and innovation at the forefront of his leadership. He was named "CEO of the Decade" by Financial News in 2011, one of the "World's Most Respected Leaders" by Fortune, and one of the "World's Best CEO's" by Barron's for 10 consecutive years.

Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Fink was a member of the Management Committee and a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation. Mr. Fink joined First Boston in 1976 and quickly became one of the first mortgage-backed securities traders on Wall Street. During his tenure at First Boston, Mr. Fink was co-head of the Taxable Fixed Income Division, which was responsible for trading and distribution of all government, mortgage and corporate securities. Mr. Fink also started the Financial Futures and Options Department and headed the Mortgage and Real Estate Products Group.  

Mr. Fink serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and is Co-Chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees. Mr. Fink also serves on the Boards of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Council on Foreign Relations and Robin Hood, the New York City charitable organization. He is also an Executive Committee member of The Partnership for New York City, which works to engage the business community in efforts to advance the City's economy and maintain its position as the center of world commerce, finance and innovation.

Mr. Fink earned an MBA degree with a concentration in real estate from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1976 and a BA degree in political science from UCLA in 1974.

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Laurence and Lori Fink Center for Finance
UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza, Entrepreneurs Hall, Suite C.424
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481

Email: fink.center@anderson.ucla.edu
Office: (310) 825-3867
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