Mayor's Technology Summit:
Homeland Security, Safety and Economic Development
George P. Shultz
Former Secretary of State
Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow
Hoover Institution
George
P. Shultz served as the 60th U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 - 1989. Following
his government service, he joined Stanford University as the Jack Steele
Parker Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Business
and a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Prior to his appointment as U.S. Secretary of State, Shultz was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board and Secretary of the Treasury. He served in the administration of President Richard Nixon as Secretary of Labor and was then appointed director of the Office of Management and Budget. He left government service to become president and director of Bechtel Group.
Currently he is a member of the board of directors of Bechtel Group, Fremont Group, Gilead Sciences, Unext.com, and Charles Schwab & Co. He is also chairman of the International Council of J. P. Morgan Chase and on the advisory committee of Infrastructureworld.
Shultz graduated from Princeton University, receiving a BA in economics. He also earned a PhD in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Columbia, Notre Dame, Loyola, Pennsylvania, Rochester, Princeton, Carnegie-Mellon, City University of New York, Yeshiva, Northwestern, Technion, Tel Aviv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Baruch College of New York, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia, and Keio University in Tokyo.