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

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, having been appointed to that position by

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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.

Early life

Reuben Jeffery III was born on August 21, 1953. Jeffery attended

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, receiving a

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in 1975. Upon graduation, he joined the management program at

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. He then moved to Stanford University, where he received both an

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and a Juris Doctor in 1981 (as part of the joint program between the Stanford Graduate School of Business and

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Career

Jeffery initially accepted an offer from

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, before moving on to Goldman Sachs in 1983. He became Managing Partner of Goldman Sachs's European Financial Institutions Group in

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in 1992, and then Managing Partner of the Goldman Sachs

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office in 1997. Jeffery supported the candidacy of

in the 2000 presidential election. In the wake of 9/11, President Bush appointed Jeffery as his Special Advisor on Lower Manhattan Development, and in 2002, Jeffery left Goldman Sachs to take on this responsibility. In 2003, Jeffery became a Special Advisor to

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, head of the

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and then became the Representative and Executive Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority Office in

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. He served as a member of the

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until 2005, as a Senior Director responsible for International Economic Affairs. Currently he sits in the Board of Directors of Barclays. In 2005, Jeffery was named the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. President Bush nominated Jeffery as

on April 16, 2007 and he was

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by the

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on June 21, 2007. He was sworn in by

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Condoleezza Rice on June 27, 2007. Currently Reuben Jeffery III serves as senior advisor at CSIS (

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). 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.

Personal life

He is married to Robin Jeffery. They have three children.

References

External links

Biography at the State Department WebsiteWebsite of the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeffery, Reuben 1953 births Living people Yale University alumni Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Stanford Law School alumni Goldman Sachs people American people of the Iraq War Coalition Provisional Authority Commodity Futures Trading Commission personnel United States Department of State officials United States National Security Council staffers Davis Polk & Wardwell lawyers George W. Bush administration personnel