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Life and career
Blankfein was born in to a
Jewish family in the
Bronx,
New York City and raised in Brooklyn's Linden Houses, part of the
New York City Housing Authority. His father was a clerk with the Postal Service in Manhattan.
[2] He received primary and secondary education in the public schools of the
New York City Department of Education, and was a
valedictorian at Thomas Jefferson High School in 1971. He attended
Harvard University, where he lived in
Winthrop House, and earned his
B.A in 1975, graduating with fellow Winthrop House student and future
Chairman of the U.S.
Federal Reserve,
Ben Bernanke. In 1978, Blankfein received a
J.D. from
Harvard Law School.
Blankfein worked as a corporate tax lawyer for the law firm
Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. In 1981, he joined Goldman's commodities trading arm, J. Aron, as a precious metals salesman in their London office.
He is the Gala Chairman of the
Rockefeller family's
Asia Society in New York. He serves on the board of the
Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization seeking to alleviate poverty in New York, as well as on the Board of Overseers at
Weill Cornell Medical College.
Blankfein earned a total of $53.4 million in 2006, making him one of the highest paid executives on
Wall Street. His bonus allegedly reflected the performance of Goldman Sachs, which reported record
net earnings of $9.5 billion. The compensation included a cash bonus of $27.3 million, with the rest paid in
stock and
options. While CEO of Goldman Sachs Group in 2007, Lloyd C. Blankfein earned a total compensation of $53,965,418, which included a base salary of $600,000, a cash bonus of $26,985,474, stocks granted of $15,542,756 and options granted of $10,453,031.
[3] He now resides in New York with his wife and children.
Blankfein has been named as the most outrageous CEO for the year 2009 by Forbes.
[4] Taking a different position, Financial Times named Blankfein as its 2009 Person of the Year stating, "his bank has stuck to its strengths, unashamedly taken advantage of the low interest rates and diminished competition resulting from the crisis to make big trading profits."
[5] However, many hold the opinion that Goldman Sachs 2009 performance is indicative of exactly what is wrong with Wall Street.
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[edit] Politics
Blankfein contributed at least $7000 to Democratic Party candidate
Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008.
On April 7, 2009, Blankfein recommended guidelines to overhaul executive compensation. According to the New York Times, Blankfein said that lessons from the global financial crisis included the need to "apply basic standards to how we compensate people in our industry".
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In November, 2009, he declared in an interview that, as a banker, he was doing "God's work".
[8] Several days later, he indicated that he regretted that remark, which had been intended as a joke. He also apologized on behalf of Goldman Sachs to the public for unspecified "things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret" which contributed to the financial and economic crisis, and pledged that Goldman would donate $500 million to American small businesses.
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