Early Life and Career
Garten earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1968 and an M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1980) from the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Garten also served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1972, and achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division and Captain in the Special Forces. In 1971 he was an advisor to the Royal Thai Army.
After Johns Hopkins, Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations, in a variety of foreign policy and economic positions. He then went on to Wall Street, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America. He also lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena. After Blackstone, he became the Undersecretary of Commerce for international trade in the Clinton administration. From 1995 to 2005, Garten was dean of the Yale School of Management.
From 1997 to 2005, Garten contributed a monthly column for BusinessWeek and until 2010 was a frequent columnist for Newsweek International. He has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs and the Harvard Business Review.
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