Founder & Chairman
Paulson Institute

Henry Paulson is the Founder and Chairman of the Paulson Institute. He is also Executive Chairman of TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing platform of the global private equity firm TPG. Paulson is the Co-chair of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, and Co-chair of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum Advisory Board. Paulson served as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury from July 2006 to January 2009. Prior to that, he had a thirty-two year career at Goldman Sachs, ultimately serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

A lifelong conservationist, Paulson was Chairman of The Nature Conservancy Board of Directors and, prior to that, founded and co-chaired the organisation’s Asia-Pacific Council. In 2011, he founded the Latin American Conservation Council. He also co-chaired the Risky Business Project from 2013 to 2017, a non-partisan initiative that quantified and publicised the economic risks of climate change in the United States.