Austin Beutner

Austin Beutner
Nationality	American
Education	BA in economics at Dartmouth College
Occupation	Former CEO, Publisher Los Angeles Times
Known for	First Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles Founder of Evercore Partners

Austin Beutner (born 1960) is an American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist. He co-founded Evercore Partners and is the former publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was also the First Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles in 2011 and ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 2012. Beutner, the son of immigrants, was born in New York and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother is a retired schoolteacher and his father is a retired manufacturing engineer.

Beutner attended Dartmouth College, where he majored in economics. After graduation in 1982 he went to work at Smith Barney as a financial analyst. At the age of 29, he became the youngest partner at The Blackstone Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. In the 1990s he co-founded the investment banking group Evercore Partners which went public in 2006.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Beutner went to work for the U.S. State Department. The Clinton administration tapped him to lead a team into Russia and help transition them from communism to a free-market economy, including the decommission of weapons and other materiel.

He has lectured on his experiences in business, government, and journalism at the University of Southern California Bedrosian Center on Governance, the UCLA Anderson School of Management.[1] as well as the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Beutner is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School where he teaches Relational Coordination Leadership and Corporate Accountability

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