Jeffrey Garten

Jeffrey E. Garten became the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance and Business at the Yale School of Management on July 1, 2005. During the previous decade he was the dean of the School. While he held that position, the Yale SOM established an International Center for Finance; an International Institute for Corporate Governance; the Sachem Venture Capital Fund for Projects in New Haven; and the Yale SOM - Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. The number of student applications increased 75%, the size of the faculty grew by 42%, and the School's endowment increased from $137 million to $362 million.

Garten currently serves on the boards of directors of the Aetna Corporation, CarMax, Credit Suisse Asset Management, and The Conference Board. He is on the advisory boards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Chicago Climate Exchange, and the Prime Minister of Malaysia, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He writes a monthly column for Business Week on major challenges facing global business leaders and is a frequent contributor to Newsweek International.

Prior to coming to Yale, Garten 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.

From 1973 to 1978 he served on the White House Council on International Economic Policy in the Nixon administration and on the policy planning staffs of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance in the Ford and Carter administrations.

He is the author of A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle for Supremacy; The Big Ten: The Big Emerging Markets and How They Will Change Our Lives; The Mind of the CEO, and The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda For Business Leaders. He has also edited and contributed to the anthology, World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy. In 2000 he chaired a national task force of the Securities & Exchange Commission, comprised of leaders from business, finance, and accounting, on the subject, "What Kind of Information Do Investors Need in the New Economy?"

Garten holds a BA from Dartmouth College, and a PhD from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in international economics and international organizations. From 1968 to 1972 he served as a lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division and a captain in the US Army Special Forces. In 1971 he was a military advisor to the Royal Thai Army.