Joshua Steiner

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Joshua L. Steiner is a private investor and a senior adviser at Bloomberg LP., where he was previously Head of Industry Verticals. [1] During his tenure at Bloomberg, Steiner oversaw the company's non-financial information businesses, venture capital fund, and corporate development and strategy teams. He also led company-wide initiatives in data privacy, emerging markets growth, and market liberalization. [2]

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In 2008, during President Obama's transition into office, Joshua Steiner served as an adviser to the Obama administration regarding economy policy. [3]

Previously he was a Managing Director at Lazard Frères & Co. and former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Treasury Department in the Clinton Administration. [4] [5]

Department of Treasury

Previously Steiner was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Treasury Department in the Clinton Administration, where he was responsible for managing the Secretary of Treasury's staff and served as his advisor on domestic and international policy as well as management and communications issues. Steiner came into national news as a result of the Whitewater investigations where he testified before Congress on the contacts between the Treasury and the Clinton White House. [6] He testified before the Senate Banking Committee on August 2, 1994 claiming that he had made "misrepresentations" in his own diary. [7] He was quickly branded as "the kid who lied to his own diary" as his testimony was largely seen as an attempt to cover for the Clinton White House. [8]

Other affiliations

He is a trustee of Yale University [9] and serves on the board of the International Rescue Committee [10] and the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is an honorary trustee of the New York Public Library, where he was previously the vice chair of the board. [5] [11]

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  2. ↑ "Joshua Steiner, Former Quadrangle Principal, Joins Bloomberg". The Wall Street Journal. January 15, 2013.
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