Naneen Neubohn was born in New York City and earned her undergraduate degree from Smith College. After attending Smith College, Neubohn went on to earn her master's degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1964 and earned yet another master's in 1974 from the Columbia Business School at Columbia University. Neubohn is perhaps best known for her work at Morgan Stanley, where she served as a financial director and later as a managing director. Throughout her career, Neubohn remained dedicated to SAIS, working as both a trustee and a career mentor. For her dedication, she was awarded the Johns Hopkins Heritage Award. In this history, Neubohn talks about her time in Bologna as a SAIS student, her thoughts on SAIS, and her time as a trustee. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Michael Bloomberg, born February 14, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, was Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins, receiving a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1964, and Harvard Business School, receiving an MBA in 1966. Bloomberg then worked on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers before founding his own company named Market Systems, which eventually became the highly successful and eponymous Bloomberg L. P. in 1987. Bloomberg became Mayor of New York City in 2002, shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001. He is also a noted philanthropist through his Bloomberg Philanthropies Foundation, which has donated extensively to Johns Hopkins University among many others. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is named in his honor. In this oral history, Bloomberg discusses his student days at Hopkins in the 1960s and his philanthropic relationship with Hopkins. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.