Henry M. Paulson Jr.

Mr. Henry M. Paulson Jr. is a high-net-worth investor based at Chicago, Illinois. He is the Chairman of Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago, which he founded in 2011. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. In 2011, he founded the Latin American Conservation Council, comprised of global business and political leaders, which he co-chaired until 2017. In 2006, he became secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury from July 2006 to January 2009. He has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs from 1996 to 2006. He also served as chairman of the Nature Conservancy from 2004 to 2006. He 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.