Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Peter Geithner

I mentioned last night at a meeting that Tim Geithner's dad was Ann's (President Obama's mom) boss our in Indonesia. Here are a few sources:

Tim Geithner Wikipedia entry--

Family and education
Geithner was born in Brooklyn, New York City and spent most of his childhood outside the United States, including present-day Zimbabwe, Zambia, India and Thailand where he completed high school at the International School Bangkok.[2] He attended Dartmouth College, graduating with an A.B. in government and Asian studies in 1983.[3] In the process he studied Mandarin at Peking University in 1981 and at Beijing Normal University in 1982.[4] He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.[3][5] He has studied Chinese[3] and Japanese.[6]
Geithner's paternal grandfather, Paul Herman Geithner (1902–1972), emigrated with his parents from the German town of Zeulenroda-Triebes to Philadelphia in 1908.[7] His father, Peter F. Geithner, was the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York in the 1990s. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham, President Barack Obama's mother, and they met in person at least once.[8] Timothy Geithner's mother, Deborah Moore Geithner, is a pianist and piano teacher in Larchmont, New York where his parents currently reside. Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as Vice President of Public Relations from 1952-1964 for Ford Motor Company.[9]

(#8 link:http://philanthropy.com/news/government/index.php?id=6453)

Also this is link to an interview with Fran Korten about her time as a co-worker and next door neighbor to Ann and her family in Indonesia: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/26/exclusive_yes_magazines_fran_korten_on

She and her husband David run a magazine called YES, it can be found at www.yesmagazine.org .

1 comment:

  1. Here is another article:

    http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-big-money-behind-geithner/

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