10 Facts About Roger Altman

Roger Charles Altman was born on April 2,1946 and is an American investment banker, the founder and senior chairman of Evercore, and a former Democratic politician.

Roger Altman served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from January 1977 until January 1981 and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration from January 1993 until he resigned in August 1994, amid the Whitewater controversy.

Roger Altman attended Georgetown University, where he met future President Bill Clinton, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967.

Roger Altman left Lehman in 1977 to serve as Assistant Secretary for Domestic Finance in the US Treasury from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter, for whom he had fundraised when Carter was Governor of Georgia, and campaigned for in 1976, as well as working on his transition team.

In 1987, Roger Altman joined the Blackstone Group as vice-chairman and head of its mergers and acquisitions advisory business.

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However, he resigned in 1994 after it was revealed that Roger Altman had warned the Clinton white house that criminal referrals made by Resolution Trust Corporation.

Roger Altman advised two presidential candidates—John Kerry in 2004, and Hillary Clinton in 2008.

Roger Altman has sat on the Board of Trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital since 2006, Vice Chairman of the Board of the American Museum of Natural History, and Chairman of New Visions for Public Schools.

Roger Altman is listed as a member of the Steering Committee of The Bilderberg Group, a controversial group of influential business and government leaders who meet annually behind closed doors to foster dialogue between Europe and North America.

Roger Altman participated in all their conferences between 2008 and 2016.