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Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group
Mr. Peterson is senior chairman and co-founder of The Blackstone Group, a private investment banking firm. He is founding president of The Concord Coalition, a bipartisan citizens group dedicated to fiscal responsibility, chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In government, he served as Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, Secretary of Commerce, and headed several commissions concerned with U.S. productivity and U.S.-Soviet economic relations. He has had extensive experience in the private sector, including as chairman and chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers and its successor company from 1973 to 1984, and chief executive officer of Bell and Howell from 1963 to 1971. He is the author of several books, including Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It and Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America – and the World. He is based in New York, NY.
October 31, 2006
| Speaker: | Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator, New York (D) |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Chairman and Cofounder, The Blackstone Group |
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Listen to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York discuss the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.
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October 31, 2006
| Speaker: | Hillary Rodham Clinton, Member, U.S. Senate (D-NY) |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, the Blackstone Group |
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) discusses current foreign policy challenges facing the United States, including the war in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and how to deal with North Korea.
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October 31, 2006
| Speaker: | Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator, New York (D) |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Chairman and Cofounder, The Blackstone Group |
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Watch Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York discuss the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.
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December 1, 2005
| Speaker: | Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group L.P. |
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September 19, 2005
| Speakers: | Sam Nunn, Co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative Richard G. Lugar, Member, U.S. Senate (R-IN); chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
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| Welcoming Remarks: | Peter G. Peterson, Senior Chairman, and Co-founder, The Blackstone Group; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations Ted Turner, Chairman, Turner Enterprises, Inc. Richard L. Plepler, Executive Vice President, HBO Warren Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. |
| Presider: | Jeff Greenfield, Senior Analyst and Contributor, CNN |
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September 15, 2005
| Speaker: | Vicente Fox Quesada, President, United Mexican States |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group; Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations |
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September 15, 2005
| Speaker: | Vicente Fox Quesada, President, United Mexican States |
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June 28, 2005
| Speaker: | John Snow, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group L.P. |
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June 28, 2005
| Speaker: | John Snow, secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, senior chairman, The Blackstone Group; chairman of the board of directors, Council on Foreign Relations |
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June 13, 2005
| Author: | Peter G. Peterson, Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group |
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Op-Ed
Newsweek
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May 23, 2005
| Speaker: | James D. Wolfensohn, President, The World Bank |
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May 23, 2005
| Speaker: | James D. Wolfensohn, president, The World Bank |
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March 9, 2005
| Speaker: | Paul H. O'Neill, former secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, senior chairman, the Blackstone Group; chairman of the board of directors, Council on Foreign Relations |
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March 9, 2005
| Speaker: | Paul H. O'Neill, Former Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman, The Blackstone Group |
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February 10, 2005
| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, The Blackstone Group; Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman, Institute for International Economics |
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February 10, 2005
| Speaker: | C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics; Editor, The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade |
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February 10, 2005
| Speaker: | C. Fred Bergsten, director, Institute for International Economics; editor, The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade |
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| Presider: | Peter G. Peterson, chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; chairman, The Blackstone Group |
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September 7, 2004
| Speaker: | Peter G. Peterson, chairman, The Blackstone Group; chairman of the board of directors, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Robert D. Hormats, vice chairman, Goldman, Sachs & Company |
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See more in Society and Culture, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September/October 2004
| Author: | Peter G. Peterson, Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group |
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