Robert E. Rubin in Conversation with Zanny Minton Beddoes

Robert E. Rubin

Robert Rubin is co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and a counselor at Centerview Partners. From 1999 to 2009, Rubin served as a member of the board of directors and senior advisor at Citigroup.

In 2005, he was one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution. In 1995, Rubin was appointed as the 70th secretary of the treasury. Rubin joined the Clinton administration in 1993 as assistant to the president for economic policy and as director of the newly created National Economic Council.

Rubin is the author of the best-selling book In An Uncertain World. He is a member of the Harvard Corporation, on the board of trustees of Mount Sinai Medical Center, and chairman of the board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, which is the nation's leading community development support organization with 38 offices nationwide.