

From 1983 until 1988, Paulson led the Investment Banking group for the Midwest Region, and became managing partner of the Chicago office in 1988. Gorter, covering large industrial companies in the Midwest.

He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974, working in the firm's Chicago office under James P. President Richard Nixon, serving as assistant to John Ehrlichman from 1972 to 1973. He then worked for the administration of U.S. Paulson was Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at The Pentagon from 1970 to 1972. They maintain homes in both Barrington Hills and Chicago. The Paulsons became grandparents in June 2007. The couple have two adult children, sports-team owner Henry Merritt Paulson III, more commonly known as Merritt Paulson, and journalist Amanda Paulson. He met his wife, Wendy Judge, a Wellesley College graduate, during his senior year.

Paulson received his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School in 1970.

in English from Dartmouth College in 1968 at Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and he was an All-Ivy, All-East, and honorable mention All American as an offensive lineman. A star athlete at Barrington High School, Paulson was a champion wrestler and stand-out football player, graduating in 1964. Paulson was born in Palm Beach, Florida, to Marianna (née Gallauer) and Henry Merritt Paulson, a wholesale jeweler. He had served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, and is now chairman of the Paulson Institute, which he founded in 2011 to promote sustainable economic growth and a cleaner environment around the world, with an initial focus on the United States and China. (born March 28, 1946) is an American banker who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury. More than an account about numbers and credit risks gone bad, On the Brink is an extraordinary story about people and politics-all brought together during the world's impending financial Armageddon. Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson - who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets - provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time of global financial crisis - and this revised edition features fresh and original material from Paulson on the five-year-anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis.įrom the man who was in the very middle of this perfect economic storm, Paulson puts the reader in the room for all the intense moments as he addressed urgent market conditions, weighed critical decisions, and debated policy and economic considerations with of all the notable players-including the CEOs of top Wall Street firms as well as Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Sheila Bair, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, and then-President George W.
