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Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Nature Conservancy
Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (Hank) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Hank joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 in the Chicago Office, and became a partner in 1982. From 1983 until 1988, Hank headed up Investment Banking Services for the Midwest Region, and became Managing partner of the Chicago Office in 1988. In 1990, he was named Co-Head of the Firm's Investment Banking Division, and in 1994 Hank rose to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1998 he was named Co-Senior Partner, and with the Firm's Public Offering in 1999, became Chairman and CEO.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson was a member of the White House Domestic Council, serving as Staff Assistant to the President from 1972 to 1973, and as Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon from 1970 to 1972. Hank serves on the Boards of Catalyst, the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and is a member of the board of the Dean's Advisors of the Harvard Business School.
Hank's other personal interests and philanthropic activities have long centered around education and environmental conservation. He was the founding Chairman of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and continues to serve on the Board, which among other things, implemented an executive education program. He is a past Chairman of the Peregrine Fund, and remains on the Board.
Hank is a member of the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy and Co-Chairman of its Asia Pacific Council. In that role he is supporting the establishment of a large national park and conservation project in the Yunnan province of China, in cooperation with the Chinese government.
Hank graduated from Dartmouth in 1968, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and All Ivy, All East, and honorable mention All American for football. He received an MBA from Harvard in 1970. He and his wife Wendy reside in New York City and Barrington, Illinois. They have two grown children, Merritt and Amanda.
Read the Press Release.
Press Release: Nature Conservancy President Salutes the Visionary Leadership of Henry Paulson
teve McCormick, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy highlighted the leadership of out-going Nature Conservancy Board Chairman Henry M. Paulson, who was nominated by President Bush to be the next Secretary of the Treasury.
