Jeffrey E. Garten

Jeffrey E. Garten is Dean of the Yale School of Management and William S. Beinecke Professor in the Practice of International Trade and Finance. Since coming to Yale in November of 1995, one of his major accomplishments has been to establish the International Center for Finance at Yale, a world-class financial research center, and to recruit a number of top professors to join it.

Currently he is chairing a high-level panel for the Securities & Exchange Commission on the subject of What is Value in the New Economy, and What Information Should Companies be Disclosing and Reporting?

He writes a monthly column for Business Week on major challenges facing global business leaders. His new book, The Mind of the CEO, based on interviews with 40 global CEOs, was published in February 2001 (Perseus/Basic Books). It focuses on the role that corporate leaders will need to play in the world economy, the constraints on them, and the implications for global growth and stability.

He serves on the boards of directors of the Aetna Corporation, the Calpine Energy Corporation, and Warburg-Pincus Asset Management.

Prior to coming to Yale, he was the undersecretary of commerce for international trade in the first Clinton administration, where he focused on promoting American business interests in Japan, Europe and many big emerging markets like China, India, and Brazil.

From 1979 to 1992, he worked on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group. During this time, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America, built up and directed the Asian investment banking business for Lehman from Tokyo, and restructured some of the world's largest shipping companies in Hong Kong.

He is the author of A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle for Supremacy (1992) and The Big Ten: The Big Emerging Markets and How They Will Change Our Lives (1997). He has edited and contributed to the anthology World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy (2000).

Dean Garten holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, 1968, and a Ph.D. from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, 1980. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces.

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