Jeffrey Garten

Who is Jeffrey Garten?

Jeffrey E. Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance and Business at the Yale School of Management and the Chairman of Garten Rothkopf, a global consulting firm. He also serves on several corporate and philanthropic boards.

From 1996-2005 he was the dean of the school, and before that, Undersecretary of Commerce for international trade in the first Clinton administration. Previously he worked on Wall Street as managing director at the Blackstone Group and Lehman Brothers. He is the author of four books on the global political economy and numerous articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, and Harvard Business Review. From 1997-2005 he wrote a monthly column in Business Week.