Jeffrey Garten is a PhD, with degrees from Dartmouth and Johns Hopkins University. Early in his career he was offered a job with Lehman Brothers on Wall Street, where he served as managing director specializing in debt restructure, according to John Hopkins Magazine. He later worked in Washington, D.C. as part of the State Department’s policy planning staff during the Nixon through Carter presidential administrations before being recruited as the undersecretary of commerce for international trade.
In 1995, Jeffrey made another career move when he was named dean at The Yale School of Management. His bio on the university’s website states that he served as Dean Emeritus from 1995 to 2005 before stepping down. Since that time, he has worked as a professor at the prestigious school, where he helms a list of MGT courses. He has also written six books on the global economy and leadership.
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The magnificence of Jeffrey’s career is not at all lost on his famous wife, Ina Garten. She once joked about her husband’s “Barefoot Contessa” kitchen cameos, telling People, “He plays this adorable kind of doofus guy who comes in and goes, ‘Oh this is delicious, what’s in it?’ But in reality he’s extremely smart, and has very interesting ideas on the world and the economy. His career has spanned government, academia, banking, and writing. …I’m still just in awe of him.”
