Steven Rattner
Until July 2009, Steven Rattner served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury and led the Administration’s efforts to restructure the auto industry. Prior to joining the Treasury Department in February 2009, he was a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm that under Mr. Rattner’s leadership, had more than $6 billion of assets under management.
Until March 2000, Mr. Rattner was with Lazard Frères & Co., where he served as Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Rattner, who joined Lazard Frères in 1989 as a General Partner, was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. Before beginning his investment banking career in 1982 with Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rattner was employed by The New York Times for nearly nine years, principally as an economic correspondent in New York, Washington and London. He continues to write on public policy issues for publications that include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Financial Times.
Mr. Rattner has served as a board member or trustee of a number of public and philanthropic organizations including the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Chairman), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City (Chairman), Brookings Institution and the New America Foundation. He is currently a Fellow of Brown University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Rattner graduated in 1974 from Brown University with honors in economics and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship. He is married to Maureen White, who is the Senior Advisor on Refugee Issues to Richard Holbrooke, the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. They live in New York and have four children.