Personal Life and Education
Peter Galbraith is the son of John Kenneth Galbraith – one of the leading economists of the 20th century – and Catherine (Kitty) Merriam Atwater, and is the brother of economist James K. Galbraith. After attending the Commonwealth School, he earned an A.B. degree from Harvard College, an M.A. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He has two children with Tone Bringa, a Norwegian social anthropologist.
Galbraith was a good friend of the twice-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, dating back to their student days at Harvard and Oxford Universities, and was instrumental in securing Bhutto's release from prison in Pakistan for a medical treatment abroad during the military dictatorship of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
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