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Steven Rattner

Private Equity Investor, Former Auto Czar

Steven Rattner led the Obama Administration's efforts to restructure the auto industry in 2009 as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, having taken a break from his private investment firm Quadrangle Group, LLC.  He has also served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Lazard, after having worked at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Rattner was also employed by the New York Times for nearly nine years, principally as an economic correspondent prior to working in finance.  He is author of "Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry."