Margaret Anadu is a senior partner and head of real estate at The Vistria Group. She is one of the foremost experts on equitable access to capital, having invested more than $10 billion across hundreds of transactions throughout the United States, and was named one of the most influential figures in US commercial real estate by Commercial Observer.

Anadu has been a trusted adviser to senior government officials at the federal, state, and local levels on using private capital to create more equitable communities. She has shared her views on CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Yahoo! Finance and was named to 40 under 40 lists by Fortune, Black Enterprise, and Crain’s.

Before joining Vistria, Anadu was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where she was the global head of sustainability and impact for asset management and chair of the Urban Investment Group.

While at Goldman Sachs, she was the chief architect of the One Million Black Women investment strategy, the firm’s $10 billion capital commitment to narrow opportunity gaps for Black women in the United States and their families and broader communities. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she led a $2 billion relief effort for small businesses.

She chairs the board of directors of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and serves on the boards of the Low Income Investment Fund, the Center for an Urban Future, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Africa Center. Anadu is a graduate of Harvard College.