Matthew Nimetz
03 / 04 / 2009
Mr. Nimetz is the Chief Operating Officer of General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm. Prior to joining General Atlantic in January 2000, Mr. Nimetz was a partner (and former chair) of the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, where he concentrated on corporate and international law [...]
Mr. Nimetz is the Chief Operating Officer of General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm. Prior to joining General Atlantic in January 2000, Mr. Nimetz was a partner (and former chair) of the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, where he concentrated on corporate and international law from December 1980 through January 2000. He previously practiced law as an associate, and partner, of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett between 1969 and 1977.
Mr. Nimetz served as Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology from February through December 1980 and as Counselor of the Department of State (1977-1980). In those capacities, he supervised United States security assistance programs and the Department’s international scientific and technological programs, including scientific and technical cooperation, nuclear nonproliferation issues, and international environmental and communications policies of the U.S. Government. He also supervised, among other things, U.S. policy on the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, Cyprus) and relationships with Eastern European countries.
From March 1994 through September 1995, Mr. Nimetz served as President Clinton’s Special Envoy in the mediation of a dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In 1999 he was appointed the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in connection with the continuing negotiations between those two parties and continues to serve in that capacity.
His previous federal government positions include service as a Staff Assistant to President Lyndon Johnson from July 1967 to January 1969; and as a law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1967. In addition, Mr. Nimetz served as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1975 to 1977), and as Chairman of the United Nations Development Corporation (a New York City public corporation) as an appointee of Mayors Koch and Dinkins (1986-1994). He served in 1974 as executive director of NY Governor-elect Hugh Carey’s transition.
Mr. Nimetz received degrees from Williams College and the Harvard Law School where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He also has an M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Mr. Nimetz serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, member and former chair of the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, a trustee of Central European University, Budapest, and a trustee of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York. He served previously as founding chair of World Resources Institute, a trustee of Williams College, a director of The Revson Foundation and a director of The Nature Conservancy of New York. Mr. Nimetz has a daughter, Alexandra, and a son, Lloyd.
Central European University Board of Trustees
George Soros; Leon Botstein
The Board of Trustees has general charge of the affairs, property and assets of Central European University. Trustees carry out the aims and purposes of the Corporation, formulate strategy for the implementation of endeavors defined in the preamble of the University By-Laws, and, to this end, manage and control all of its property and assets.
The Board decides upon establishment or cessation of teaching sites and departments, after consulting the Senate and the President and Rector. The Board of Trustees issues financial guidelines, and decides upon possible departures from such guidelines. The Board of Trustees decides upon tuition fees.
Members
George Soros, Honorary Chairman of the Board
(Soros Fund Management LLC, New York)
Leon Botstein, Chairman of the Board
(Bard College, New York)
Gunter Stock, Vice-Chair
(Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Gerhard Casper
(Stanford University, Stanford)
Akos Detrekoi
(Hungarian National Council for Communications and Information Technology)
Yehuda Elkana
(CEU President and Rector)
Patricia Albjerg Graham
(Harvard University)
Vartan Gregorian
(Carnegie Corporation of New York)
Chaviva M. Hosek
(Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto)
Wilhelm Krull
(Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover)
Pierre Mirabaud
(Mirabaud & Cie, Geneva)
Monica Macovei (CEU alumna, Legal Studies 1993)
(Advisor on Anti-Corruption to the Prime Minister of Macedonia)
Peter A. Nadosy
(Morgan Stanley, New York)
Aryeh Neier
(Open Society Institute, New York)
William Newton-Smith
(Open Society Foundation, London)
Matthew Nimetz
(General Atlantic, Greenwich, US)
Mary Patterson McPherson
(American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia)
Wanda Rapaczynski
(AGORA, Warsaw)
Jonathan Soros
(Soros Fund Management LLC, New York)
Adam Tertak
(Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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