Joshua Harris
Senior Managing Director, Apollo Global Management LLC; Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Apollo Management LP
Joshua Harris is a senior managing director of Apollo Global Management and managing partner of Apollo Management, which he co-founded in 1990. Prior to 1990, Harris was a member of the mergers and acquisitions group of Drexel Burnham Lambert. In addition to his involvement in charitable and political organizations, he is the managing partner of the Philadelphia 76ers and a member of the Corporate Affairs Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. Harris serves as chairman of the advisory board of the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he is also on the board of trustees. He is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Investors Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. Harris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business with a bachelor's degree in economics and received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker and Loeb Scholar.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.