Raymond McGuire

In a May 2021 interview with The New York Times, McGuire greatly underestimated the median cost of a home in Brooklyn. Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, characterized his estimate as being "out of touch with what’s going on in the city."

In October 2020, McGuire announced he would run for Mayor of New York City in 2021. Valerie Jarrett was announced to serve as a co-chair of McGuire's campaign. McGuire has pledged to focus his campaign on racial unrest amid the George Floyd protests and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

An art collector, McGuire is the chairman of the Studio Museum in Harlem. He was a bundler to Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, and mentioned as a possible candidate for a position in the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2013.

McGuire began working in finance in 1982 at First Boston. He was one of the original members of Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc., and worked at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. He spent several years at Morgan Stanley before moving to Citigroup in 2005, where he worked as the global co-head of investment banking.

McGuire was born in Dayton, Ohio and raised by his mother and grandparents. Through scholarships, he attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. He then graduated with a B.A. from Harvard College in 1979. McGuire attended the University of Nice in France on a Rotary Fellowship in 1980. In 1984, he received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Raymond J. McGuire (born January 23, 1957) is an American businessman and political candidate who worked as an executive at Citigroup. McGuire was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary.