Timothy Geithner

Timothy Geithner
Timothy Geithner ; ( central banker);
Born	Timothy Franz Geithner; 1961-08-18; New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	US
Alma mater	• Dartmouth College; • SAIS
Children	2
Spouse	Carole Marie Sonnenfeld
Member of	Council on Foreign Relations/Members, Economic Club of New York, Group of Thirty, International Rescue Committee, Kissinger Associates, RAND/Board of Trustees, Trilateral Commission
Party	Independent
	US/Secretary of the Treasury
In office
	January 26, 2009 - January 25, 2013
Deputy	Neal Wolin
Preceded by	Stuart Levey
Succeeded by	Neal Wolin
	President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
In office
	November 17, 2003 - January 26, 2009
	United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
In office
	1998 - 2001

Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who was United States secretary of the treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014, he has worked as president and chairman of Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.^[1]

Spooky father

Geithner was born in Manhattan, New York, to Peter Franz Geithner and Deborah Moore.^[2] His father, a German American, was the director of the Ford Foundation's Asia program in New York during the 1990s, after working for the United States Agency for International Development in Zambia and Zimbabwe,.^[3] both organizations connected to the CIA. During the early 1980s, Geithner's father oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham Soetoro, Barack Obama's mother, and they met at least once in Jakarta.^[4]

Geithner's mother, a Mayflower descendant, belongs to a New England family.^[5] Her father, Charles Frederick Moore, Jr., served as vice-president of public relations for the Ford Motor Company from 1952 to 1964, and advised President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as Nelson Rockefeller and George W. Romney, on their respective presidential campaigns. His uncle, Jonathan Moore, worked in the departments of Defense, Justice and State, as well as in the United Nations.^[3]

Geithner spent most of his childhood living abroad, including in Zimbabwe; Zambia; India; and Thailand, where he completed high school at the International School Bangkok.^[6] He studied Mandarin at Peking University in 1981, and at Beijing Normal University in 1982.^[7] Like his father, paternal grandfather and uncle; Geithner attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1983, with an A.B. in Government and Asian studies,^[6] then earned a M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, in 1985.^[6]^[8] He has also studied Japanese.^[9]

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Barack Obama/Presidency	20 January 2009	20 January 2017		The Barack Obama administration
Bilderberg/2004	3 June 2004	6 June 2004	Italy Stresa	The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Bilderberg/2005	5 May 2005	8 May 2005	Germany Rottach-Egern	The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Bilderberg/2006	8 June 2006	11 June 2006	Canada Ottawa	54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests
Bilderberg/2007	31 May 2007	3 June 2007	Turkey Istanbul	The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Bilderberg/2008	5 June 2008	8 June 2008	US Virginia Chantilly	The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008	23 January 2008	27 January 2008	Switzerland WEF	At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."

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