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Timothy Franz "Tim" Geithner (; born August 18, 1961) is an American economic policy maker and central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013. He was previously the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009. He now serves as president of Warburg Pincus, a Wall Street private equity firm. Geithner's position included a large role in directing the Federal Government's spending on the crisis, including allocation of $350 billion of funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program enacted during the previous administration. At the end of his first year in office, he continued to deal with multiple high visibility issues, including administration efforts to restructure the regulation of the nation's financial system, attempts to spur recovery of both the mortgage market and the automobile industry, demands for protectionism, President Obama's tax changes, and negotiations with foreign governments on approaches to worldwide financial issues. ==Family and education== Geithner was born in New York City, son of Peter Franz Geithner and his wife Deborah Moore. His father was the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York in the 1990s. Geithner's father is a German American. Geithner's paternal grandfather, Paul Herman Geithner (1902–1972), immigrated to the United States in 1908 with his parents from Zeulenroda, in Thuringia. Geithner's mother, a Mayflower descendant, belongs to a New England family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=geithner )〕 Her father, Charles Frederick Moore, Jr., was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as Vice President of Public Relations from 1952 to 1964 for Ford Motor Company. Geithner spent most of his childhood living abroad, including Zimbabwe, Zambia, India, and Thailand, where he completed high school at the International School Bangkok.〔 He attended Dartmouth College, as did his father and paternal grandfather, graduating in 1983 with an A.B. in government and Asian studies. He studied Mandarin at Peking University in 1981 and at Beijing Normal University in 1982.〔(Speech by Secretary Geithner ) 24 October 2014〕 and earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.〔 He has also studied Japanese. Geithner married Carole Marie Sonnenfeld, his classmate at Dartmouth, on June 8, 1985, at his parents' summer home in Orleans, Massachusetts. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine, where she teaches listening skills to medical students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Author )〕 She is the children's author of a coming-of-age novel about grief.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Author )〕 Her father, Albert Sonnenfeld, was a professor of French and Comparative Literature and a food critic; her mother, Portia, died when Carole was 25, shortly after she was married. They have two adult children, a daughter named Elise and a son named Benjamin.〔Romero, Frances, ("Obama's White House – Treasury Secretary: Timothy Geithner" ), ''Time Specials'', December 2, 2008〕 During the early 1980s, Geithner's father oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham Soetoro, President Barack Obama's mother, and they met at least once. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timothy Geithner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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