Mortimer Zuckerman

“It is a grand tradition in America to welcome foreigners to our shores, especially people with the ambition and the talent to contribute to our future. This has always been a part of the greatness of America,” Canadian-American Mortimer B. Zuckerman wrote in a 2013 U.S. News & World ReportOp-ed. Zuckerman is the co-founder, executive chairman, and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the U.S. He is owner and publisher of U.S. News & World Report, where he also serves as editor-in-chief. In 2012, with a $200 million pledge, he endowed the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University to study the neural sciences and human behavior. “This country has provided me with extraordinary opportunities,” Zuckerman said in a news release, “and I am glad for the chance to support scientific leadership in a field I believe is so essential to all our lives.” In the past decade, he has given $100 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and in 2016 he pledged $100 million to create the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program to support graduate-level and post-doc scientists. Updated 2018