Peter Richard Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is the CEO of Financial Advisory at Lazard.[1]
On May 26, 2023, the firm announced that Orszag had been
unanimously elected by its Board to serve as CEO of Lazard and as a
Board Director, effective October 1, 2023.[2]
Before June 2019, he was the firm's Head of North American M&A and Global Co-Head of Healthcare.[3][4]
Orszag previously served as a Vice Chairman of Corporate and
Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions
Group at Citigroup.[5] Before joining Citigroup, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow
at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing columnist for the New York Times op-ed page.[6] Prior to that, he was the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Barack Obama and had also served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Orszag is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Mount Sinai Hospital, and New Visions for Public Schools in New York.