John C Whitehead

Mr. Whitehead, statesman, philanthropist and banker, served from 1985-89 as Deputy Secretary of State. For thirty-eight years he was at Goldman Sachs where he became Senior Partner and Co-Chairman. He is chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and is a Director of the Nature Conservancy, Lincoln Center Theater, the East-West Institute and the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Brookings Institution and of Youth for Understanding and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a member of the Trustee Council of the National Gallery of Art. He was Director of the Rockefeller University, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the National Humanities Center and Outward Bound. He has been Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Harvard Board of Overseers, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Asia Society and International House. In 2001 he was appointed as Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the organization responsible for the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan.