Ambassador Felix G. Rohatyn '49 serves as president of Rohatyn Associates LLC, a firm he founded in April 2001 that provides financial advice to corporations
Mr. Rohatyn served as United States Ambassador to France from September 11, 1997, until December 28, 2000.
Born in Vienna, Austria on May 29, 1928, Ambassador Rohatyn received his secondary school education in France. He has lived in the United States since 1942 and resides in New York City.
Prior to his appointment as Ambassador in Paris, Mr. Rohatyn was a managing director of the investment-banking firm Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in New York, which he joined in 1948, becoming a partner in 1961. He retired from the firm in 1997 in order to take up his post in France. From 1975 to 1993, he was also chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation (MAC) of the State of New York, where he managed the negotiations that enabled New York City to resolve its financial crisis in the late seventies. He served as a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange from 1968 to 1972. He also served on the boards of several NYSE listed corporations.
Mr. Rohatyn is currently vice chairman of Carnegie Hall, New York City, and is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He is a member of the board of trustees of Middlebury College. He also serves on the boards of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Publicis Groupe S.A., Groupe Lagardère and Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG.
Ambassador Rohatyn served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953.
Ambassador Rohatyn received his bachelor of science degree in physics from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1949, and has also been awarded numerous honorary degrees. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of many other non-profit organizations. He is a Commander in the French Legion of Honor.
Married to Elizabeth Fly Rohatyn, he is the father of three children. Mrs. Rohatyn is former chairman of the New York Public Library. She has one daughter.
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