J.P. Morgan Wealth Management Managing Director and Wealth Partner Liz Weikes
The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has appointed J.P. Morgan Wealth Management Managing Director and Wealth Partner Liz Weikes to its Board of Visitors. She joins 24 other distinguished Board members.
With more than 17 years of experience helping clients navigate complex wealth planning, Weikes has earned a reputation for excellence with her clients, who comprise ultra-high net worth families, C-suite executives, and foundations. She is a member of the J.P. Morgan Wealth Management Portfolio Manager Program and manages her clients’ assets holistically with a family office-style model. She offers comprehensive investment strategies and active portfolio management, and the capabilities of JPMorgan Chase important to her clients, including philanthropic advisory, estate planning, banking and lending.
A graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington with a B.A. in political science and finance, Weikes began her career working for the United Kingdom Department of International Trade (now the Department for Business and Trade) at the British Embassy in Washington. She joined a J.P. Morgan predecessor firm in 2006, managing money for wealthy families and trading for institutions.
Weikes remains dedicated to supporting financial literacy and educational opportunities in her industry, and has aligned her charitable and mentorship support alongside diversity and inclusion efforts to empower youth. She gifted the Liz Weikes Scholarship for Women in Finance to the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University to raise opportunities for women in wealth management. She also continues her support as a 100 Women in Finance Global Angel.
“Liz Weikes came to know the Colin Powell School through her mentorship of one of our students in JPMorgan Chase’s Advancing Black Pathways Initiative. She was drawn to our mission and has quickly become a leader in new initiatives to provide our students with support, advice, and mentorship,” said Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of the Colin Powell School. “She embodies our values, and we are so pleased to welcome Liz’s leadership as a member of the Board of Visitors.”
“I look forward to working with Liz Weikes as a member of our Board of Visitors. Her mentorship and support of our students fulfills my father’s ambition for the Colin Powell School, that we do everything possible to get our students south of 59th Street and into internships and jobs that will lead them to professional success,” said Linda Powell, the chair of the Colin Powell School Board of Visitors.
“The students at the Colin Powell School inspire me with the energy they bring to the classroom and workplace. I look forward to working with my fellow board members to provide greater programming, fundraising and awareness to the School’s absolutely essential work in higher education here in New York City,” said Weikes.
About the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
Established in April 2013, the Colin Powell School is home to the social science departments at CCNY as well as the core leadership development and public service programs of the College. With almost 4,000 students, and graduating the most CCNY students annually, the Colin Powell School mission is to transform the nation’s most diverse student body into tomorrow’s global leaders. Half of our students are immigrants; more than seventy percent are first-generation college students. Eighty percent are people of color. Most come from lower income backgrounds. The Colin Powell School and City College remain among the most effective engines of economic and social mobility in the United States. The School is led by a faculty dedicated to the highest standards of research and to the university’s democratic and public obligations. Read more about the Colin Powell School.
About the City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Emsi puts at $1.9 billion CCNY’s annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the “for dollar” return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself. View CCNY Media Kit.