Speaker Details
Robert E. Rubin
Former Secretary of the US Treasury & Director and Senior Counselor, Citigroup Inc
Robert E. Rubin is a Director at Citigroup and has been involved with financial markets and our nations public policy debate all of his professional life.
Mr. Rubin began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York City in 1966. Mr. Rubin served as Vice-Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 1987-1990 and as Co-Senior Partner and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992. Before joining Goldman, he was an attorney at the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City.
Mr. Rubin, long active in national and New York Citys public affairs, joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the newly-created National Economic Council. Under Mr. Rubins guidance, the NEC oversaw the Administrations domestic and international economic policymaking
process, coordinated economic policy recommendations to the President and monitored the implementation of the Presidents economic policy goals.
From 1995-1999, Mr. Rubin served as our nations 70th Secretary of the Treasury. As Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Rubin played a leading role in many of the nations most important policy debates. He was involved in balancing the federal budget; opening trade policy to further globalization; acting to stem financial crises in Mexico, Asia and Russia; helping to resolve the impasse between the Congress and the Executive Branch over the public debt limit; safeguarding the nations currency against counterfeiting; and guiding sensible reforms at the Internal Revenue Service.
In 1999, Mr. Rubin joined Citigroup as Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Citigroup. Citigroup is the leading global financial services company and does business in more than 100 countries.
Mr. Rubin is the Chairman of the Board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) which is the nations leading community development support organization with 38 offices nationwide. At the White House and Treasury, Mr. Rubin was a leading advocate for policy actions that met the need for economic development in the
Nations distressed urban and rural areas.
Mr. Rubin also serves on the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 2000, he became a member of the Advisory Board of Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based private-equity investment firm that specializes in e-commerce business-to-business companies. He is also a member of the Harvard Corporation. In 2003, he was named Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2007, he was named Co-Chairman.
In 2006, Mr. Rubin was one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution that offers a strategic vision and innovative policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans.
Mr. Rubin is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington [Random House, 2003, with Jacob Weisberg], which was a New York Times bestseller as well as being named one of Business Weeks ten best business books of the year.
Mr. Rubin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1960 with an A.B. in economics. He received a L.L.B. from Yale Law School in 1964 and attended the London School of Economics. He was born in New York City in 1938 and is married to Judith Oxenberg Rubin, who served as the New York City Commissioner of Protocol for four years under Mayor David Dinkins. The Rubins have two adult sons, James and Philip.
Mr. Rubin began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York City in 1966. Mr. Rubin served as Vice-Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 1987-1990 and as Co-Senior Partner and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992. Before joining Goldman, he was an attorney at the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City.
Mr. Rubin, long active in national and New York Citys public affairs, joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the newly-created National Economic Council. Under Mr. Rubins guidance, the NEC oversaw the Administrations domestic and international economic policymaking
process, coordinated economic policy recommendations to the President and monitored the implementation of the Presidents economic policy goals.
From 1995-1999, Mr. Rubin served as our nations 70th Secretary of the Treasury. As Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Rubin played a leading role in many of the nations most important policy debates. He was involved in balancing the federal budget; opening trade policy to further globalization; acting to stem financial crises in Mexico, Asia and Russia; helping to resolve the impasse between the Congress and the Executive Branch over the public debt limit; safeguarding the nations currency against counterfeiting; and guiding sensible reforms at the Internal Revenue Service.
In 1999, Mr. Rubin joined Citigroup as Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Citigroup. Citigroup is the leading global financial services company and does business in more than 100 countries.
Mr. Rubin is the Chairman of the Board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) which is the nations leading community development support organization with 38 offices nationwide. At the White House and Treasury, Mr. Rubin was a leading advocate for policy actions that met the need for economic development in the
Nations distressed urban and rural areas.
Mr. Rubin also serves on the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 2000, he became a member of the Advisory Board of Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based private-equity investment firm that specializes in e-commerce business-to-business companies. He is also a member of the Harvard Corporation. In 2003, he was named Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2007, he was named Co-Chairman.
In 2006, Mr. Rubin was one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution that offers a strategic vision and innovative policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans.
Mr. Rubin is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington [Random House, 2003, with Jacob Weisberg], which was a New York Times bestseller as well as being named one of Business Weeks ten best business books of the year.
Mr. Rubin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1960 with an A.B. in economics. He received a L.L.B. from Yale Law School in 1964 and attended the London School of Economics. He was born in New York City in 1938 and is married to Judith Oxenberg Rubin, who served as the New York City Commissioner of Protocol for four years under Mayor David Dinkins. The Rubins have two adult sons, James and Philip.
