Jeffrey A. Goldstein is a United States

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 banker who has been Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance since March 27, 2010.

Biography

Jeffrey A. Goldstein was born on December 2, 1955. He was educated at Vassar College

Vassar College

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 and the London School of Economics

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, receiving a B.A.

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 in Economics

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 in 1977. He then attended grad school at Yale University

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, earning an M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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, M.Phil., and a Ph.D.

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 in Economics.

In 1982, Goldstein taught Economics at Princeton University

Princeton University

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. He then worked at the Brookings Institution

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, focusing his research on international financial policy. Goldstein then joined Wolfensohn & Co., working there for fifteen years. When Wolfensohn & Co. was purchased by Bankers Trust

Bankers Trust

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 in 1996, Goldstein stayed on as co-chairman of BT Wolfensohn and as a member of Bankers Trust's management committee.

In 1999, Goldstein became a managing director of the World Bank

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. He became chief financial officer

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 of the World Bank in 2003. He joined Hellman & Friedman

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 in 2004.

In 2010, President of the United States

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 Barack Obama

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 nominated Goldstein to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance and Goldstein has held that office since March 27, 2010.

In July of 2011, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner awarded Goldstein with the Alexander Hamilton award, the highest honor for a presidential appointee.