Seth Magaziner | |
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Treasurer of Rhode Island | |
Assumed office January 6, 2015 |
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Governor | Gina Raimondo |
Preceded by | Gina Raimondo |
Personal details | |
Born |
Seth Michael Magaziner July 22, 1983 Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education |
Brown University (BA) Yale University (MBA) |
Website | Official website |
Seth Magaziner (born July 22, 1983) is an American investment professional and the current General Treasurer of the State of Rhode Island.
Magaziner is a native of Bristol, Rhode Island and the son of Bill Clinton policy advisor Ira Magaziner. He graduated from Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts in 2002. He then attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he served as president of the Brown University Democrats, president of the College Democrats of Rhode Island and served on the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
Magaziner received a Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management, in New Haven, Connecticut.
Magaziner worked as Elementary School teacher at Creswell Elementary School in Hurricane Katrina ravaged Opelousas, Louisiana from 2006-2008, as a Teach for America Corps member. In 2009, he worked as an associate at Point Judith Capital, a Rhode Island based venture capital firm.
After graduate school, Magaziner went to work at Trillium Asset Management, a Boston, Massachusetts based socially responsible investment firm, as a vice president and lead analyst for energy, banking, and diversified financial sector investment.