Jeffrey Garten’s unique background bridges the gap between theory and practice that includes dean of the Yale School of Management intertwined with experience as an investment banker and senior-level policy work for four presidential administrations. He is the author of five books, a sought-after columnist and his counsel is relied upon by global business leaders.
Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance and Business at the Yale School of Management where his teaching focuses on global finance and global business. His courses include “Washington and Wall Street: Markets, Policy and Politics,” “China in the Global Economy” and “Leading a Global Company” which focuses on a dozen great global companies and he jointly teaches with the CEO or Chairman of each company.
Garten’s experiences include senior-level policy positions in international trade and finance in the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations. He is the chairman of Garten Rothkopf, a global consulting firm. He holds directorships on several major corporations. He worked on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group, specializing in debt restructuring in Latin America and the Asian investment banking business.
He is the author of The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda for Business Leaders (Harvard Business School Press, 2002); The Mind of the CEO (Basic Books, 2001); The Big Ten: The Big Emerging Markets and How They Will Change Our Lives (Basic Books, 1997) and A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle for Supremacy (Times Books, 1992). From 1997 to 2005 he wrote a monthly column for BusinessWeek on global business issues. His articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Newsweek, The Harvard Business Review and Foreign Affairs.
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