Timothy Geithner
Timothy Geithner
Timothy Franz "Tim" Geithneris a former American central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration. He now serves as president of Warburg Pincus, a Wall Street private equity firm...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth18 August 1961
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.