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Peter G. Peterson is Chairman and Co-founder of the Blackstone Group, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founding Chairman of the Institute for International Economics (IIE), and founding President of the Concord Coalition. He is also Co-Chair of the Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprises.

Peterson is a former chair/CEO of Lehman Brothers (1973-1977) and former chair/CEO of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb (1977-1984). From 1963-1971, he was chairman/CEO of the Bell and Howell Corporation.

Peterson served as Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs (1971) under Richard M. Nixon. He was named as Secretary of Commerce by Nixon in 1972. He also assumed the chairmanship of Nixon's National Commission on Productivity and was appointed by Nixon as the U.S. Chairman of the U.S.-Soviet Commercial Commission.

He also serves on the boards of directors at Sirius Satellite Radio. He formerly served on the boards of the Sony Corporation, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M), General Foods Corporation, RCA, The Continental Group, and Cities Service.

Peterson is Trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, the Japan Society, and at the Museum of Modern Art, and is a Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Public Agenda Foundation, and for The Nixon Center.

He is the recipient of Honorary Ph.D. degrees from Colgate University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Northwestern University, the University of Rochester (NY), and Southampton College of Long Island University.

Note: The biographical information, above, is derived from Peterson's official bio on the Concord Coalition website.

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation [1] was formed in 2008.

• Advisory Board, Common Good
• Advisory Board, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
• Director, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation
• Life Director, Japan Society
• Member, Independent Commission on International Development Issues ^[1]

Contents 1 Books 2 Articles 2.1 Articles by Peterson 2.2 Articles about Peterson 2.3 References

Books

• "Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It", Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 14, 2004, ISBN 0374252874
• "Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America - and the World", Random House, 1999, ISBN 0812931955
• "Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?", Random House, 1996, ISBN 0679452567
• "Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream", Simon & Schuster, November 8, 1993, ISBN 0671796429

Articles

Articles by Peterson

• Peter G. Peterson, "Riding for a Fall", Foreign Affairs, September/October 2004.

Articles about Peterson

• John L. Hess, A Crusader in Clover: Pete Peterson, Enemy of Social Security, Counts Journalists as Friends, Extra!, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, March/April 1997.
• "Conversation with a Conservative: Peter G. Peterson", Mother Jones, October 26, 2004. ("The Commerce Secretary in the Nixon administration explains that the Republican Party "has lost its moorings" in recent years.)
• Scott Sherman, Kissinger's Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations, The Nation, December 27, 2004 (print edition), Dec. 6, 2004 (electronic version). Article discusses Peterson's relation to CFR and Kissinger.
• Dean Baker, "Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street", truthout, December 27, 2007.

References

1. ↑ Abdlatif Y. Al-Hamad, Centre for Global Negotiations, accessed September 21, 2008.