Christopher Bancroft Burnham on Our Global Economy FREE
Cort Morgan '80 of The Potomac School has invited us. Please RSVP to Cort Morgan cmorgan@potomac School.org
Open Questions Forum
Christopher B. Burnham
Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Deutsche Asset Management
Global Co-Head of Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors
Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Management
Former United States Department of State Under-Secretary for Management
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Chief Financial Officer
Former Connecticut State House of Representatives Assistant Minority Leader
Former Connecticut State Treasurer
Marine Corps Gulf War Veteran and Reservist
Our Global Economy
Distinguished business leader and former government executive Christopher B. Burnham will lead an exploration of our current complex global economy, its perils and its possibilities.
He will speak for about an hour and then conduct an open discussion with the audience.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
6:00- 9:00 pm
Langstaff Auditorium
The Potomac School
1301 Potomac School Road
McLean, VA 22101
Free parking is available on site.
There will be light refreshments served before the presentation.
RSVP: Cort Morgan, cmorgan@potomacschool.org
Christopher Bancroft Burnham was appointed Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM), in November 2006, and is a member of the Global Operating Committee. DeAM is a world-leading global asset management and alternative firm with more than $750 billion in assets under management. In 2008 Mr. Burnham was asked to also launch and serve as global co-head of Deutsche Bank’s direct private equity group, DB Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA), the bank’s reentry into private equity after an eight year absence. In addition, in December 2010 Mr. Burnham was tasked with creating DB Alternatives, an effort to consolidate the global marketing and distribution of the four main parts of DeAM’s alternative business--real estate, private equity, private equity fund of funds, and infrastructure. DB Alternatives is the tenth largest alternative manager in the world with over $73 billion in assets under management.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Burnham served as Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Management, “the chief operating officer” of the United Nations. Appointed by Kofi Annan on June 1, 2005, Mr. Burnham was the senior most American in the United Nations Secretariat. He was tasked by Secretary General Annan with overhauling the accountability and transparency of the United Nations in the wake of the Oil for Food scandal.
Mr. Burnham was also responsible for all human resources, information technology, treasury, finance, budgeting, accounting, peacekeeping finance and budgeting, and facilities at the United Nations. He served as sole fiduciary of the $40 billion United Nations pension fund, and successfully convinced the U.S. Congress to fund the renovation of the United Nations New York headquarters campus.
Mr. Burnham joined the United Nations after serving as acting Under Secretary of State for Management for Secretary Condoleezza Rice, and as Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Chief Financial Officer of the State Department for General Colin Powell. Mr. Burnham joined the Department of State in September 2001.
Prior to joining the Department of State, Mr. Burnham had a distinguished career in business and elected office, including as President and Chief Executive Officer of Columbus Circle Investors, at the time PIMCO's largest equity management subsidiary, and as Vice Chairman of PIMCO mutual fund group. He was elected in 1987 to three terms in the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he served as Assistant Minority Leader, and in 1994 as State Treasurer of Connecticut.
Mr. Burnham was the youngest Under Secretary General at the United Nations during his tenure. At the time of his confirmation by the United States Senate, Mr. Burnham was the youngest Assistant Secretary in the State Department. And during his term in office, Mr. Burnham was the youngest state treasurer in the nation.
A twenty-three year veteran of the United States Marine Corps Reserve, in 1991 Mr. Burnham was part of the lead infantry forces into Kuwait City in the Gulf War.