- Lewis B. Kaden
Lewis B. Kaden is a Vice Chairman at Citigroup Inc. He has administrative responsibility for several corporate functions within Citigroup. He also manages the bank's human resources, legal, and mergers-and-acquisitions group, as well as Citigroup's Japanese operations.
Background
Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Kaden had spent most of his career in academia and working as a high-powered
lawyer . He spent 21 years with the large international law firm ofDavis Polk & Wardwell and also taught labor relations andconstitutional law as an adjunct professor atColumbia University 's Law School. For nearly a decade before entering private practice, Mr. Kaden was a tenured professor at Columbia.Mr. Kaden was raised in the blue-collar city of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey , by a father who operated a small trucking company. He graduated fromHarvard College andHarvard Law School . After he graduated from Harvard Law School, Mr. Kaden joined the legislative staff of Sen.Robert Kennedy . By age 26, he ranked as the top domestic-policy staff adviser to Mr. Kennedy during the senator's four-month run for president, which ended with Mr. Kennedy's assassination in 1968. In 1970, Kaden ran as an anti-war candidate in the Democratic primary for the House of Representatives in New Jersey's 15th Congressional District.External links
* [http://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/profiles/kaden/index.htm Citigroup Profiles -Lewis B. Kaden]
* [http://www.markle.org/about_markle/who_we_are/board_of_directors/lewis_b_kaden.php Markle Foundation -Lewis B. Kaden]
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