Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-010240
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Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ RECOMMENDATION

| The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR the election of each nominee listed below. |

Unless otherwise directed in the proxy, the persons named in the proxy will vote FOR each nominee listed below. Information About the Director Nominees and Continuing Directors Nominees for Election as Directors for Three-Year Terms Expiring in 2028

| Peter Harrison            
 Age: 59 years             
 Independent Director      
 Director since March 2025 
 Committees:               
 • Audit                   
 • Workplace and Culture   |     | Mr. Harrison served as Chief Executive Officer of Schroders (“Schroders”) plc from April 2016 to November 2024. He was appointed to the Board of Schroders in May 2014. Previously he was Global Head of Investment. Before joining Schroders, Mr. Harrison was Chairman and CEO of RWC Partners. From 2004 to 2006, he was Global Chief Investment Officer of Deutsche Bank’s various asset management businesses. Peter began his career at Schroders, and later spent time at Newton Investment Management and Flemings/JP Morgan as a Portfolio Manager. Mr. Harrison is a member of the UK Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce, the board of the UK Investment Association (which he previously chaired) and the UK Capital Markets Industry Taskforce. He is currently serving a three-year term (concluding in 2027) as Chair of Business in the Community, the King’s responsible business charity. He also serves on the Board of Directors of FCLT Global (the non-profit association dedicated to focusing capital on the long term), and he sits on the advisory boards of venture capital firm Antler and the Harvard University Impact Board. 
 Qualifications:Mr. Harrison was selected to be a director of Lazard because of his extensive experience within the financial services and investment management industry.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |

| Dan Schulman                                                       
 Age: 67 yearsLead Independent DirectorDirector since February 2024 
 Committees:• Compensation                                          
 •Nominating and Governance                                         
 •Workplace and Culture                                             |     | Mr. Schulman served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal”) from July 2015 to September 2023 and as PayPal’s President and Chief Executive Officer-Designee from September 2014 to July 2015. He also has served on PayPal’s Board from July 2015 to December 202