By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer
Former governor Jon Corzine was named this week to a one-year appointment in Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
As the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. visiting professor, Mr. Corzine will lead a public lecture series on financial market regulation in the fall and teach a graduate course on issues related to state policy in the spring.
”Princeton offers uncommon ground for a thoughtful and informed dialogue on public policy questions that touch all of our lives, and I look forward to being actively engaged in that conversation,” Mr. Corzine said in a statement.
Mr. Corzine served as New Jersey governor from 2006 to 2010 and as a U.S. senator representing New Jersey from 2001 until 2006. While governor, Mr. Corzine was as an ex-officio member of Princeton’s board of trustees, a position held by each sitting governor of New Jersey.
Prior to his time in public office, Mr. Corzine was chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs & Co. where he oversaw the conversion of the investment firm from a private partnership to a publicly traded corporation. Mr. Corzine also served under President Bill Clinton as chairman of a presidential commission studying ways to increase federal investment in schools, infrastructure and technology.
”I couldn’t be more pleased that Jon Corzine will visit the Woodrow Wilson School next year,” Wilson School Dean Christina Paxson said in a statement. “His experiences — as a governor, a senator and in the world of finance — give him a unique perspective on the interplay between federal and state policy and between the public and private sectors.”
Students, faculty and visitors will have an opportunity to engage Corzine on state and national issues, she said.
”The colloquium that he will lead on financial market regulation will bring experts to Princeton to give public lectures on some of the difficult issues we’re facing in this area,” she said. “I expect that this colloquium will attract a wide range of students as well as other members of the broader Princeton community.”
Mr. Corzine now serves as chairman and CEO of MF Global, an international broker and intermediary firm offering solutions in global cash, derivatives and related markets.
He graduated from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and has a master’s in business administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
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