Jeffrey E Garten was born on 1946 and is an American economist, author, businessman, and former government official who is Dean Emeritus at the Yale School of Management, where he teaches a variety of courses on global economy.
16 Facts About Jeffrey Garten
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Jeffrey Garten is the author of six books on the global political economy and numerous articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, and Harvard Business Review.
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Jeffrey Garten is the son of Ruth and Melvin Garten.
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Jeffrey Garten's father fought in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam; and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1953 for his heroism in Korea's Battle of Pork Chop Hill.
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Jeffrey Garten's brother, Allan Garten, is a retired federal prosecutor in Portland, Oregon.
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Jeffrey Garten served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1972, during the Vietnam War, holding the rank of Lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division and Captain and aide-de camp to the commanding general of the US Special Forces.
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Jeffrey Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations in both the White House and at the State Department.
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Jeffrey Garten then went on to Wall Street, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers and, later, the Blackstone Group.
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Jeffrey Garten lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking business for that firm, including overseeing some of the largest international corporate restructurings of the era.
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Jeffrey Garten founded the Eliot Group, an investments firm, in 1990, and was its first chairman.
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Jeffrey Garten then taught at Columbia Business School from 1992 to 1993.
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From July 1993 to September 1995, Jeffrey Garten was Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration where he focused his efforts on trade and investment deals in "Big Emerging Markets" such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey.
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Jeffrey Garten has been married to the former Ina Rosenberg since 1968.
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Jeffrey Garten has written thirteen best-selling cookbooks, including Cooking for Jeffrey in 2016.
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Jeffrey Garten has been teaching a number of courses at the Yale School of Management:.
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Jeffrey Garten has led the following International Study Trips with Yale students:.