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People at SCEPA
SCEPA Advisory Board
Peter
G. Peterson
Senior Chairman and Co-Founder
The Blackstone Group
Peter G. Peterson
is Senior Chairman and Co-Founder of The Blackstone Group. He is
Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, founding Chairman
of the Institute for International Economics (Washington, D.C.),
and founding President of The Concord Coalition. Peterson was the
Co-Chair of The Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and
Private Enterprises (Co-Chaired by John Snow, currently Secretary
of the Treasury). He was also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York from 2000 to 2004.
In 1971, President
Richard Nixon named Peterson Assistant to the President for International
Economic Affairs. He was named Secretary of Commerce by President
Nixon in 1972. At that time he also assumed the Chairmanship of
President Nixon's National Commission on Productivity and was appointed
U.S. Chairman of the U.S.-Soviet Commercial Commission, which negotiated
comprehensive trade, Ex-Im credit, arbitration, copyright and lend-lease
agreements.
Mr. Peterson
is the author of several books, including Running On Empty: How
the Democratic and Republican Parties are Bankrupting Our Future
and What Americans Can Do About It; Gray Dawn: How the Coming
Age Wave Will Transform America - and the World; Will America
Grow Up Before It Grows Old?; and Facing Up: How to Rescue
the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream.
He has been
awarded honorary Ph.D. degrees by Colgate University, Georgetown
University, George Washington University, Northwestern University,
the New School for Social Research, the University of Rochester,
and Southampton College of Long Island University.
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