The German-born chief economist at the investment bank Goldman Sachs, Jan Hatzius, is rising.
As Goldman boss David Solomon writes in an internal message to employees, Hatzius has been appointed to the bank's 32-person management committee.
Christian Siedenbiedel
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Hatzius is now the second German there alongside M&A specialist Marc Nachmann.
Born in Heidelberg in 1968, Hatzius studied at the University of Wisconsin, at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and received his doctorate in 1995 from Oxford University with a thesis on "Migration and the labor market: the case of Germany".
At times he worked as a staff member at the London School of Economics.
Hatzius joined Goldman Sachs in the Frankfurt office in 1997 and moved to New York in 1999.
In 2004 he was promoted to Managing Director and in 2008 to Partner.
Before assuming his current role, he was Head of Global Economics and Markets Research.
He is a member of the Economic Advisory Boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Congressional Budget Office.