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Timothy Geithner Biography

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Timothy Geithner is Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet of U.S. President Barack Obama. Geithner spent much of his childhood overseas; his father, Peter Geithner, worked for the Ford Foundation's Asia program. Timothy Geithner graduated from Dartmouth College in 1983 with a degree in government and Asian studies. He followed that with a master's degree from Johns Hopkins in East Asian studies and International Economics in 1985. He worked for Kissinger and Associates (the consulting firm of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) from 1985-88, then joined the Department of the Treasury in 1988. He "worked in three administrations for five Secretaries of the Treasury in a variety of positions," according to his biography from the Federal Reserve. He also worked at the International Monetary Fund before being named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2003. Called "relatively young, largely unknown and a proud workaholic" by The Wall Street Journal, Geithner has close ties to Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, both secretaries of the Treasury under Bill Clinton.

Extra credit: His last name is pronounced GITE-ner... Geithner married the former Carole Sonnenfeld in 1985; they met at Dartmouth. They have a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Elise... Geithner is "a keen tennis player and an enthusiastic, if inexpert, skier," according to The Financial Times.

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