Look who George Bush is naming as treasury secretary

U.S. media reports suggest that at 9:15 this morning, President Bush will name Goldman Sachs Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Henry M. Paulson Jr. as treasury secretary.

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Here's the corporate biography we lifted this morning from the Goldman Sachs website:

*********************** Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Mr. Paulson has been our chairman and chief executive officer since May 1999, and a director since August 1998.

He was co-chairman and chief executive officer or co-chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P., our predecessor, from June 1998 to May 1999, and served as chief operating officer from December 1994 to June 1998.

Mr. Paulson is not on the board of any public company other than Goldman Sachs.

He is currently the chairman of the Financial Services Forum.

He is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as a member of the board of directors of Catalyst.

He also serves on the advisory board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.

He is chairman of the board of directors of The Nature Conservancy, co-chairman of the Asia/Pacific Council of The Nature Conservancy and chairman emeritus of The Peregrine Fund, Inc.

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