Jeffrey Garten
Encyclopedia
Jeffrey Elliot Garten was the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade under the Clinton
administration and former Dean of the Yale School of Management
. Before this, Garten served as a managing director of the Blackstone Group and Lehman Brothers on Wall Street, and on the White House
Council on International Economic Policy under the Nixon
administration and on the policy planning staffs of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger
and Cyrus Vance
of the Ford
and Carter
administrations. He is the author of five books and currently holds the position of Juan Trippe
Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business at the Yale School of Management
, a position without tenure.
in 1968 and an M.A. in 1972 from Johns Hopkins University
. In 1980, he received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Garten also served in the United States Army
from 1968 to 1972, and achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division and Captain in the Special Forces. In 1971 he carried the title of Advisor to the Royal Thai Army.
After Johns Hopkins, Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. He then went on to Wall Street
, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers
and the Blackstone Group
. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring
in Latin America
. He also lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking
business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena. After Blackstone, he became the Undersecretary of Commerce for international trade in the Clinton administration. From 1995 to 2005, Garten was dean of the Yale School of Management
. During his tenure, the school was ranked in the top ten in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The Economist, and retained its #19 rank in Businessweeks rankings.
From 1997 to 2005, Garten contributed a monthly column for BusinessWeek
. Currently, he is a frequent columnist for Newsweek International. He has also written for The New York Times
, The Wall Street Journal
, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs
.
, who hosts Food Network's
Barefoot Contessa
and has written several best-selling cookbooks. He is often featured on his wife's cooking show
sampling Ina's meals. The Gartens live in Southport, Connecticut
, and East Hampton, New York
.
He sits on the board of directors for several corporations, including Aetna Corporation
, CarMax
, Inc., Credit Suisse
Asset Management, The Conference Board
, and The International Rescue Committee, and is chairman of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm. He is also on the advisory board of the Chicago Climate Exchange
.
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
administration and former Dean of the Yale School of Management
Yale School of Management
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
. Before this, Garten served as a managing director of the Blackstone Group and Lehman Brothers on Wall Street, and on the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
Council on International Economic Policy under the Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
administration and on the policy planning staffs of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
and Cyrus Vance
Cyrus Vance
Cyrus Roberts Vance was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980...
of the Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
and Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
administrations. He is the author of five books and currently holds the position of Juan Trippe
Juan Trippe
Juan Terry Trippe was an American airline entrepreneur and pioneer, and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the world's most prominent airlines of the twentieth century.-Early years:...
Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business at the Yale School of Management
Yale School of Management
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
, a position without tenure.
Early life and career
Garten earned his B.A. from Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
in 1968 and an M.A. in 1972 from Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
. In 1980, he received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Garten also served in the United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
from 1968 to 1972, and achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division and Captain in the Special Forces. In 1971 he carried the title of Advisor to the Royal Thai Army.
After Johns Hopkins, Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. He then went on to Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...
and the Blackstone Group
Blackstone Group
The Blackstone Group L.P. is an American-based alternative asset management and financial services company that specializes in private equity, real estate, and credit and marketable alternative investment strategies, as well as financial advisory services, such as mergers and acquisitions ,...
. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring
Debt restructuring
Debt restructuring is a process that allows a private or public company – or a sovereign entity – facing cash flow problems and financial distress, to reduce and renegotiate its delinquent debts in order to improve or restore liquidity and rehabilitate so that it can continue its...
in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
. He also lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking
Investment banking
An investment bank is a financial institution that assists individuals, corporations and governments in raising capital by underwriting and/or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities...
business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena. After Blackstone, he became the Undersecretary of Commerce for international trade in the Clinton administration. From 1995 to 2005, Garten was dean of the Yale School of Management
Yale School of Management
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
. During his tenure, the school was ranked in the top ten in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The Economist, and retained its #19 rank in Businessweeks rankings.
From 1997 to 2005, Garten contributed a monthly column for BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek
Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
. Currently, he is a frequent columnist for Newsweek International. He has also written for The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...
.
Personal life
Garten is married to Ina GartenIna Garten
Ina Rosenberg Garten is an American author, host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and former White House nuclear policy analyst...
, who hosts Food Network's
Food Network
Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....
Barefoot Contessa
Barefoot Contessa
Barefoot Contessa is a cooking show that premiered November 30, 2002 on Food Network. This popular show is hosted by celebrity chef Ina Garten. Each episode features Garten assembling dishes of varying complexity. Though her speciality is French cuisine, she occasionally prepares American, Asian,...
and has written several best-selling cookbooks. He is often featured on his wife's cooking show
Cooking show
A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all...
sampling Ina's meals. The Gartens live in Southport, Connecticut
Southport, Connecticut
Southport is a section and census-designated place of the town of Fairfield, Connecticut, located along Long Island Sound between the Mill River and Sasco Brook . As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,585...
, and East Hampton, New York
East Hampton (village), New York
The Village of East Hampton is a village in Town of East Hampton, New York. It is located in Suffolk County, on the South Fork of eastern Long Island...
.
He sits on the board of directors for several corporations, including Aetna Corporation
Aetna
Aetna, Inc. is an American health insurance company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical management...
, CarMax
CarMax
CarMax is the United States' largest used-car retailer and a Fortune 500 company. The first CarMax used car auto superstore was opened in September 1993. In the fiscal year ending February 28, 2009, more than 350,000 cars were sold; as of August 2010 the company has 103 locations.- Concept :The...
, Inc., Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse
The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...
Asset Management, The Conference Board
The Conference Board
The Conference Board, Inc. is a non-profit, non-partisan business membership and research group. It has approximately 12,000 executives in its network, from 1200 corporations in 60 countries. It holds conferences, convenes executives, conducts economic and business management research, and is seen...
, and The International Rescue Committee, and is chairman of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm. He is also on the advisory board of the Chicago Climate Exchange
Chicago Climate Exchange
The now defunct Chicago Climate Exchange was North America’s only voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil....
.