Timothy Geithner
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| Born | Timothy Franz Geithner 1961-08-18 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, SAIS |
| Children | 2 |
| Spouse | Carole Marie Sonnenfeld |
| Party | Independent |
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Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who was United States secretary of the treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014, he has worked as president and chairman of Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.[1]
Spooky father
Geithner was born in Manhattan, New York, to Peter Franz Geithner and Deborah Moore.[2] His father, a German American, was the director of the Ford Foundation's Asia program in New York during the 1990s, after working for the United States Agency for International Development in Zambia and Zimbabwe,.[3] both organizations connected to the CIA. During the early 1980s, Geithner's father oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham Soetoro, Barack Obama's mother, and they met at least once in Jakarta.[4]
Geithner's mother, a Mayflower descendant, belongs to a New England family.[5] Her father, Charles Frederick Moore, Jr., served as vice-president of public relations for the Ford Motor Company from 1952 to 1964, and advised President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as Nelson Rockefeller and George W. Romney, on their respective presidential campaigns. His uncle, Jonathan Moore, worked in the departments of Defense, Justice and State, as well as in the United Nations.[3]
Education
Geithner spent most of his childhood living abroad, including in Zimbabwe; Zambia; India; and Thailand, where he completed high school at the International School Bangkok.[6] He studied Mandarin at Peking University in 1981, and at Beijing Normal University in 1982.[7] Like his father, paternal grandfather and uncle; Geithner attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1983, with an A.B. in Government and Asian studies,[6] then earned a M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, in 1985.[6][8] He has also studied Japanese.[9]
References
- ↑ Bloomberg "Company Overview of Warburg Pincus LLC - Timothy F. Geithner", Bloomberg L.P.; 2018. Retrieved 12-07-18.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=VjHvAgAAQBAJ
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20120306032647/http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20081125%2FNEWS%2F811250313
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081211165533/http://philanthropy.com/news/government/index.php?id=6453
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121022165943/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ebattle/celeb/geithner.htm
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20081221092206/http://thedartmouth.com/2008/10/03/news/geithner/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141025024040/http://umbrellapayrollcompany.co.uk/2014/10/24/speech-by-secretary-geithner/
- ↑ http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/
- ↑ http://www.businessday.com.au/business/world-business/obama-picks-dynamic-duo-to-rescue-us-20081124-6ezb.html?page=3
