Alexander S. Friedman is the Chief Investment Officer of UBS Wealth Management and Wealth Management Americas and is the Chair of the UBS Global Investment Committee. In this capacity, Friedman oversees the investment policy and strategy for approximately $1.5 trillion in assets, one of the largest capital pools in the world.

Friedman is the former Chief Financial Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a member of the foundation's management committee. Friedman joined the foundation following Warren Buffet's historic gift in late 2006 and served as CFO during a period when the foundation more than doubled in size.

Friedman also managed a private investment vehicle, Asymmetry, served as a senior advisor to Lazard, the international investment firm, and on the Supervisory Board of Actis, the global emerging market private equity firm. He was a White House Fellow in the Clinton Administration and an Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Friedman is a member of the board of trustees of a number of non-profit organizations and has served on the investment committee of multiple endowments. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Friedman holds a JD from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA from Princeton.