The founding co-chair of the Corporate Fund Junior Business Council at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Eric Blair-Joannou also serves as a trustee at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and on two advisory councils at Cornell University. Eric Blair-Joannou also serves as the President of his co-op Board on the Upper East Side of New York City.

A graduate of Cornell University, Mr. Blair-Joannou earned his BA in History and French Literature with honors. During this time, he gained experience working with the ING Group in Hong Kong and BNP Paribas in Greece. Following his graduation, he accepted a position at J.P. Morgan as an analyst in Asset Management.

Mr. Blair-Joannou went on to conduct research at the Copenhagen Business School and then earned an MS in urban planning and an MBA in real estate finance from Columbia University. He also served as an intern in land use and environmental review at the New York City Department of City Planning and as a graduate intern in transportation engineering and planning at the New York State Department of Transportation.