Henry Kaufman
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Henry Kaufman

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Henry Kaufman is President of Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., a firm established in April 1988, specializing in economic and financial consulting and now a family investment office. For the previous 26 years, he was with Salomon Brothers Inc, where he was a Senior Partner, Managing Director, Member of the Executive Committee, and head of the firm’s four research departments. He was also a Vice Chairman of the parent company, Salomon Inc. Before joining Salomon Brothers, Dr. Kaufman was in commercial banking and served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Born in Germany in 1927, Kaufman received a B.A. in economics from New York University in 1948, an M.S. in finance from Columbia University in 1949, and a Ph.D. in banking and finance from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration in 1958. He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from New York University in 1982, and honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Yeshiva University in 1986 and from Trinity College in 2005. Over his long, distinguished Wall Street career, Dr. Kaufman has met with central bankers and other leaders in business and government around the world, and delivered scores of addresses at prominent organization in finance, economics, and business. He is author of hundreds of essays and editorials in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune magazine, Business Week, and other leading periodicals as well as four previous books: Interest Rates, the Markets, and the New Financial World (which was awarded the first George S. Eccles Prize for excellence in economic writing from the Columbia Business School); On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir; The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms; and Tectonic Shifts in Financial Markets: People, Policies, and Institutions. In addition to his business activities, Dr. Kaufman has been active in a number of public organizations including as a Member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman Emeritus at the Institute of International Education; Member of the Board of Trustees and Member of the Investment Committee, Norton Museum of Art; Member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Overseers, Stern School of Business, New York University; Member of the Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University; Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Former Treasurer, The Economic Club of New York; Honorary Trustee and Former President, The Animal Medical Center; Life Trustee, New York University; and Life Trustee, The Jewish Museum. He has been a major benefactor of the Institute of International Education; New York University, through the Kaufman Management Center, and the Kaufman Music Center in New York City, and has endowed professorships in financial and business history at five universities. Henry Kaufman lives in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey and Palm Beach, Florida with his wife, Elaine. They have three sons – Craig, Daniel, and Glenn.
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