Jeffrey E. Garten
Economist, author and Yale professor
Jeffrey E. Garten is an American economist and author who teaches the global economy at Yale. He is a former dean of its School of Management.
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American Born 1946
About Jeffrey E. Garten
At the Yale School of Management, Garten gives courses about the global economy. He led the school as dean from 1996 to 2005 and is now Dean Emeritus. From 1993 to 1995 he served in the Clinton administration as Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade. Before that he worked on Wall Street as a managing director at the Blackstone Group and Lehman Brothers. He has written for publications including The New York Times, the Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, and wrote a monthly Business Week column from 1997 to 2005. His book From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives tells the story of globalization through ten lives.