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Co-Chairman; Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup, Inc.
Mr. Rubin is chairman of Citigroup. He began his career as an attorney at the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City from 1964-1966. He then joined Goldman, Sachs & Company as an associate in 1966, became a general partner in 1971 and joined the management committee in 1980. Mr. Rubin was vice-chairman and co-chief operating officer from 1987 to 1990 and served as co-senior partner and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992. He joined the Clinton administration in 1993, serving in the White House as assistant to the president for economic policy and the first director of the National Economic Council. Mr. Rubin served as secretary of the treasury from January 1995 until July 1999. He joined Citigroup in 1999 and also serves as chairman of the board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation's leading community development support organization. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Ford Motor Company and on the board of trustees of Mount Sinai-NYU Health. In March 2000 he became a member of the advisory board of Insight Capital Partners, a New York-based private-equity investment firm. He is also a member of the Harvard Corporation. He is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington [2003, with Jacob Weisberg], which was named one of Business Week's ten best business books of 2003. He is based in New York, NY.
Past Research Project
September 25, 2006
| Speaker: | General Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Author, In The Line Of Fire: A Memoir |
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| Presider: | Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup Inc.; Vice Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations |
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General Pervez Musharraf, president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, discusses his new book, In the Line of Fire, and then answers questions about Pakistan’s internal and external relations, terrorism, and its relationship with America.
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September 25, 2006
| Speaker: | General Pervez Musharraf, President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
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| Presider: | Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup Inc.; Vice Chairman; Council on Foreign Relations |
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Listen to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf discuss his new memoir, terrorism, and U.S.-Pakistan relations.
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September 25, 2006
| Speaker: | General Pervez Musharraf, President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
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| Presider: | Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup Inc.; Vice Chairman; Council on Foreign Relations |
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Watch Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf discuss his new memoir, terrorism, and U.S.-Pakistan relations.
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May 19, 2005
| Speaker: | William H. Donaldson, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission |
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| Presider: | Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup; Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury |
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December 17, 2004
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November 18, 2003
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October 29, 2003
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October 2001
Task Force Report No. 37
Task Force Report
With the current slowdown in the world economy, the expansion of free trade is critically important to economic growth in the United States and abroad—and the United States must move forward on expanding trade now. That is the conclusion of this independent Task Force, which specifically recommends that Congress give Trade Promotion Authority, formerly known as “fast-track,” to the president.
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October 27, 1997
| Speaker: | Robert E. Rubin, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury |
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| Presider: | Thomas W. Jones |
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