Steven Rattner
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Steven Lawrence Rattner July 5, 1952 Great Neck, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Maureen White |
| Children | 4 |
Steven Lawrence Rattner (born July 5, 1952) is an American financier who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry in 2009 for the Obama administration. He was a managing principal of the Quadrangle Group, a private equity investment firm that specialized in the media and communications industries. Prior to co-founding Quadrangle, he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard Freres & Co., where he rose to deputy chairman and deputy chief executive officer. Rattner began his career as a journalist for The New York Times.
Rattner is chairman of Willett Advisors LLC, the private investment group that manages billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's personal and philanthropic assets. He continues to be involved in public policy matters as the economic analyst for MSNBC's Morning Joe, and he has returned to The New York Times as a contributing writer for its Op-Ed page.
Born in New York City, Rattner was raised in the suburb of Great Neck, where he attended local public schools. He received his A.B. with honors in economics from Brown University in 1974 and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship. While at Brown, he served as editor-in-chief of The Brown Daily Herald in 1973.
Upon graduating from Brown, Rattner was hired in Washington, D.C., as a news clerk to 'New York Times columnist and former executive editor James Reston. After a year, he moved to New York as a reporter to cover business, energy, and urban affairs, becoming friends with colleague Paul Goldberger. In 1977, he was sent back to Washington to cover the energy crisis. At the unusually young age of 27, he became the paper's chief Washington economic correspondent, where he became close friends with future Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., and dated Judith Miller. He concluded his service to The New York Times with a two-year stint in London as its European economic correspondent.
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