Reuben Jeffery III

Reuben Jeffery III
Reuben Jeffery III
	Robert D. Hormats
Personal details
Born	August 21, 1953 (age 70); Wilmington, Delaware
Alma mater	Yale University (BA); Stanford University (JD/MBA)
Known for	Diplomat

Reuben Jeffery III (born August 21, 1953) is the former

United States President George W. Bush in June 2007. Presently, Reuben Jeffery III is the President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of Rockefeller & Co. and Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of J. Rothschild Capital Management Limited.^[1]

Early life

Reuben Jeffery III was born on August 21, 1953.[2]

Jeffery attended

Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York City. He then moved to Stanford University, where he received both an Master of Business Administration and a Juris Doctor in 1981 (as part of the joint program between the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School

).

Career

Jeffery initially accepted an offer from

Davis Polk & Wardwell, before moving on to Goldman Sachs in 1983. He became Managing Partner of Goldman Sachs's European Financial Institutions Group in London in 1992, and then Managing Partner of the Goldman Sachs Paris

office in 1997.

Jeffery supported the candidacy of

L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and then became the Representative and Executive Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority Office in The Pentagon

.

He served as a member of the United States National Security Council until 2005, as a Senior Director responsible for International Economic Affairs. Currently he sits in the Board of Directors of Barclays.^[3]

In 2005, Jeffery was named the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

President Bush nominated Jeffery as

Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs on April 16, 2007 and he was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 21, 2007. He was sworn in by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

on June 27, 2007.

Currently Reuben Jeffery III serves as senior advisor at CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies). On July 27, 2010, Jeffery was hired to be CEO of Rockefeller & Co., a NYC-based asset manager with $43 billion under management.

On May 8, 2012, Jeffery was reported donating $32,000 to Romney Victory Inc.

In 2013, Jeffery was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.^[4]

Personal life

He is married to Robin Jeffery. They have three children.^[5]

References

^ "Rockefeller & Co., Leadership". Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
^ date & year of birth according to LCNAF CIP data
^ Barclays PLC Annual Report 2014
^ Avlon, John (February 28, 2013). "The Pro-Freedom Republicans Are Coming: 131 Sign Gay Marriage Brief". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
^ "President's Nominee to be the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs". 2001-2009.state.gov. June 12, 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2018.

External links

Government offices
Preceded by Josette Sheeran	Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs June 27, 2007 – January 20, 2009	Succeeded by Robert Hormats

[1] "Rockefeller & Co., Leadership". Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.

[2] te & year of birth according to LCNAF CIP data

[3] Barclays PLC Annual Report 2014

[4] Avlon, John (February 28, 2013). "The Pro-Freedom Republicans Are Coming: 131 Sign Gay Marriage Brief". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 8, 2018.

[5] "President's Nominee to be the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs". 2001-2009.state.gov. June 12, 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2018.

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