Timothy F. Geithner

Timothy F. Geithner (born August 18, 1961) is the 9th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In that role he also serves as Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).

Geithner was born in New York City. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in government and Asian studies in 1983 and from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with an M.A. in International Economics and East Asian Studies in 1985. He worked for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years and then joined the International Affairs division of the Treasury Department in 1988.

In 1999, he was promoted to Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and served under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.

In 2001, he left the Treasury to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department. He then worked for the International Monetary Fund as the director of the Policy Development and Review Department until moving to the Fed in 2003. In 2006 he became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.

He is married and has two children. [ [http://www.ny.frb.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/geithner.html Geithner's profile at the NY Fed website] ]

ee also

* Federal Reserve System

References

External links

* [http://www.ny.frb.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/geithner.html Tim Geithner's home page at the NY Fed]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/business/09credit.html New York Times article about Tim Geithner]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16792734/ Who’s who: The Federal Open Markets Committee (MSNBC)]
* [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid={0D8682ED-74B4-4144-85FE-F2214455F37E} Bernanke's quiet skipper makes waves] , MarketWatch.com