Head of the Global Client Business
Mark Wiedman, Senior Managing Director, is head of the Global Client Business, and a member of the Global Executive Committee.
Mark is responsible for BlackRock’s asset management businesses worldwide. Since 2019, he has led BlackRock’s building and delivering investment capabilities to clients around the transition to a low carbon economy.
From 2019 to 2022, Mark was head of International and Corporate Strategy. From 2011 to 2019, he was Global Head of iShares and Index Investments. He joined the firm in 2004 to help start Financial Markets Advisory.
Mark led BlackRock's 2008 creation of Penny Mac, now the #2 U.S. mortgage bank, and served on its board 2008-2019.
He leads the Women’s Accelerator, is the current GEC co-sponsor for SOMOS (the Latinx & Allies Network), and the former sponsor for the OUT & Allies Network.
Before BlackRock, he was Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Treasury and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has taught finance and law at Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and Renmin University in Beijing. He serves on the boards of the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations and of Focusing Capital on the Long-Term (FCLT). He earned an AB degree, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, in Social Studies from Harvard College in 1992, and a JD degree from Yale Law School in 1996.
