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Session 3: A View from the U.S. Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson will speak.
Presentations
Henry Paulson's speech (at US Treasury site)
Speakers
Thomas R. Keene
Bloomberg News
Thomas R. Keene is an editor-at-large for Bloomberg News. He provides economic and investment perspective to Bloomberg's various news divisions and writes the chart of the day article, available only on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service. He features the chart on Bloomberg Television. Tom is host of "Bloomberg on the Economy" heard weekdays on the Bloomberg Radio network and on podcasts on Bloomberg.com and iTunes. He is editor of Flying on One Engine, The Bloomberg Book of Master Market Economists, Fourteen Views on the World Economy, published in 2005. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and is enrolled in courses at the London School of Economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the CFA Institute, the National Association for Business Economics and The Economic Club of New York
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Secretary of the Treasury
President George W. Bush nominated Henry M. Paulson, Jr. to be the 74th Secretary of the Treasury on June 19, 2006. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed Paulson to the position on June 28, 2006 and he was sworn into office on July 10, 2006 by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. As Treasury Secretary, Paulson is the President's leading policy advisor on a broad range of domestic and international economic issues.
Before coming to Treasury, Paulson was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 in the Chicago Office and became a partner in 1982. From 1983 until 1988, Paulson headed up Investment Banking Services for the Midwest Region and became Managing Partner of the Chicago Office in 1988. In 1990, he was named Co-head of the firm's investment Banking Division, and in 1994 he rose to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1998, he was named Co-Senior partner, and with the firm's public offering in 1999, became Chairman and CEO.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Paulson was a member of the White House Domestic Council, serving as Staff Assistant to the President from 1972 to 1973, and as Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon from 1970 to 1972.
Paulson graduated from Dartmouth in 1968, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and All Ivy, All East, and honorable mention All American for football. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1970. He and his wife, Wendy, have two children, Amanda and Merritt.
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