Harvey M. Krueger
is Vice Chairman of Barclays Capital. Previously, Mr. Krueger was Vice Chairman of Lehman Brothers, Inc. In 1977, Mr. Krueger merged Kuhn, Loeb, & Co., the investment banking firm of which he was President and CEO, with Lehman Brothers. Prior to joining Kuhn, Loeb in 1959, Mr. Krueger worked for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine, and Moore for five years. Mr. Krueger is a highly experienced investor in Israeli companies and is credited with, essentially single-handedly, opening the international capital markets to Israeli governmental and corporate securities. In addition to Lehman Brothers, he also served on the Board of Directors of a number of American and Israeli companies, including Delta Galil Industries, Ltd., RG Barry Corp., and Automatic Data Processing, Inc. He presently is a Director of Bernard Chaus, Inc., Hansard Global plc, and Duff & Phelps.
Mr. Krueger is former Chairman and current Trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of Beth Hatefutsoth; Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and its parent Continuum Health Partners, and the Board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Mr. Krueger was the Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for nine years, was President and Chairman of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and is past Chairman of the Peres Center for Peace. He served on the Advisory Board of Carnegie Mellon University Department of History and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Mr. Krueger received a B.A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
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