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CHARLOTTE BLOOMBERG graduated from high school at the age of 16 and completed her undergraduate studies at New York University. Both she and her late husband, William Bloomberg, were employed by dairy companies in the northeast. Mrs. Bloomberg is active in cultural and civic life in Medford, Massachusetts, and metropolitan Boston.
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, Engr 1964, who chaired the University's Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2002, established this professorship to honor his mother on her 75th birthday. Mr. Bloomberg began his career in finance with Salomon Brothers. In 1981, he founded Bloomberg Financial Markets, which today provides multimedia, analytical, and news services to terminals at investment and securities firms and banks around the world. With headquarters in New York, the company also publishes books, operates an internationally syndicated news-radio station and television channel, produces television programming, and offers an Internet site.
Mr. Bloomberg has provided generous support throughout the University and Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is currently mayor of New York City.
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