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Timothy Franz Geithner (1961) is an American economic policy maker and central bankerwho served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013. He was previously the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009. He now serves as president of Warburg Pincus, a Wall Street private equity firm.

Geithner's position included a large role in directing the Federal Government's spending on the crisis, including allocation of $350 billion of funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program enacted during the previous administration. At the end of his first year in office, he continued to deal with multiple high visibility issues, including administration efforts to restructure the regulation of the nation's financial system, attempts to spur recovery of both the mortgage market and the automobile industry, demands for protectionism, President Obama's tax changes, and negotiations with foreign governments on approaches to worldwide financial issues.

Memberships:

• Center for Global Development (Board of Directors)
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Economic Club of New York (trustee)
• Bank for International Settlements, Committee on payment and settlement systems (chairman)
• Bilderberg Group

Geithner was portrayed by Billy Crudup in the HBO film Too Big to Fail.