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'''Robert E. Rubin''' is believed to be a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]. Rubin served as a high level executive at [[Goldman Sachs]] from 1966 to 1992. He is a Soviet investment expert. He served as Secretary of the Treasury under [[William Jefferson Clinton]].Following his term as treasury Secretary Rubin joined [[Citigroup]] in 1999 as an adviser to the bank’s senior executives and from November to December 2007 he served temporarily as Chairman.<ref>Eric Dash and Louise Story, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/10rubin.html?_r=1&hp Rubin Leaving Citigroup; Smith Barney for Sale], NY Times, January 9, 2009.</ref>

He Rubin pushed for the repeal of [[Glass-Steagall]], the depression era law that separated commercial banks from investment banks so that bankers could not with depositor savings. After [[Citibank ]] and Travelers Group merged making one of the largest banking insurance conglomerates in the world, Rubin went to work for citi and raked in Citi, making over $17,000,000 in compensation from Citigroup and a further $33,000,000 in stock options as of 2008. Rubin also supported deregulation and internationalization of the derivatives market, and was a key player in pulling off negotiating the Uruguay Round which resulted in the creation of the WTO and binding deregulatory rules in at the WTO in the FS sector. Rubin is now director of the [[National Economic Council]].{{fact}}

"Mr. Rubin is chairman of [[Citigroup]]. He began his career as an attorney at the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City from 1964-1966. He then joined [[Goldman, Sachs & Company]] as an associate in 1966, became a general partner in 1971 and joined the management committee in 1980. Mr. Rubin was vice-chairman and co-chief operating officer from 1987 to 1990 and served as co-senior partner and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992. He joined the Clinton administration in 1993, serving in the White House as assistant to the president for economic policy and the first director of the National Economic ==Council. Mr. Rubin served as secretary of the treasury from January 1995 until July 1999. He joined Citigroup in 1999 and also serves as chairman of the board of the [[Local Initiatives Support Corporation]] (LISC), the nation's leading community development support organization. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of the [[Ford Motor Company]] and on the board of trustees of [[Mount Sinai-NYU Health]]. In March 2000 he became a member of the advisory board of [[Insight Capital Partners]], a New York-based private-equity investment firm. He is also a member of the [[Harvard Corporation]]. He is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington (2003, with [[Jacob Weisberg]]), which was named one of Business Week's ten best business books of 2003. He is based in New York, NY." <ref>[http://www.cfr.org/bios/292/robert_e_rubin.html Robert E. Rubin], Council on Foreign Relations, accessed April 29, 2008.</ref>foreign relations==

Rubin is a member of the COuncil on Foreign Relations.<ref>[http://www.cfr.org/bios/292/robert_e_rubin.html CFR bio], Accessed Oct 11, 2009</ref> ==Resources and articlesArticles & resources==