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Lloyd Blankfein

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Lloyd Blankfein · Economics & Business

What

Former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (2006-2018), leading the firm through the 2008 financial crisis.

When

1954, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Lloyd Blankfein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (2006-2018), leading the firm through the 2008 financial crisis.

How & why

Lloyd Blankfein is an American banker born in 1954 to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, and raised in a Brooklyn housing project. He rose through Goldman Sachs to serve as its chairman and CEO from 2006 to 2018, leading the firm through the 2008 financial crisis. His career is often cited as an example of upward mobility from modest beginnings to the top of global finance.

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Former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (2006-2018), leading the firm through the 2008 financial crisis.

1954

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