Reuben Jeffery

Reuben Jeffery III

Reuben Jeffery III (* 1953 ) is an American lawyer , bank manager and diplomat , who from 2007 to 2009 undersecretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs ( Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs ) in the US State Department was.

Life

Jeffery began after school to study political science at Yale University , which he completed in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Political Science). A subsequent post-graduate studies in professional management at the Stanford University he graduated in 1981 with a Master of Business Administration from (MBA). Another postgraduate law degree at Stanford University, he also completed in 1981 with a Juris Doctor (JD).

He then began his professional career as an attorney with the New York City- based law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP , for which he worked until 1983. He then joined the investment banking and securities trading company Goldman Sachs in 1983, where he was a managing partner and responsible for the group of European financial institutions between 1992 and 1997 and, most recently, a managing partner of Goldman Sachs in Paris between 1997 and 2001 .

In 2002, Jeffery, who had supported George W. Bush in the 2000 US presidential election , moved to the office of the White House chief of staff and was President Bush's special advisor on development for Lower Manhattan , which was hit after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks .

Subsequently, in 2003 he first became an advisor to Ambassador Paul Bremer , the head of the coalition interim administration in Iraq, CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) and then representative and executive director of the CPA office in the US Department of Defense , before he was most recently Executive Director for International Economic Affairs until 2005 the National Security Council ( National Security Council ) was. Then he served between 2005 and 2007 as chairman of the Federal Authority for regulating the futures contract - and options markets CFTC ( Commodity Futures Trading Commission ) .

On June 27, 2007, Jeffery was appointed by President Bush to succeed Josette Sheeran as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs at the US State Department, a position he held until the end of Bush's tenure on January 20, 2009.

In July 2009 Jeffrey became CEO, President and Director of Rockefeller & Co Inc. and Rockefeller Financial Services Inc.

In 2012 Jeffrey merged the investment houses of the two successful family dynasties, the Rockefellers financial group and Lord Jacob Rothschild’s RIT Capital Partners into a joint investment fund in order to manage part of their wealth together.

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