Christopher Burnham

Christopher Bancroft Burnham is the chairman and chief executive officer of Cambridge Global Capital, LLC,[1] headquartered in Washington, D.C. He has served as Under Secretary General for Management of the United Nations, Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of State. He was a three-term Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, as well as vice chairman of Deutsche Bank Asset Management and global co-head of private equity,[2] and CEO of PIMCO's largest equity arm, Columbus Circle Investors. He is also the chairman of Cambridge Global Advisors (CGA), a strategic advisory services and consulting firm.[3]

Chris Burnham
Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Management
In office June 1, 2005 – November 15, 2006
Secretary General	Kofi Annan
Preceded by	Catherine Bertini
Succeeded by	Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
Under Secretary of State for Management Acting
In office February 4, 2005 – June 1, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Grant S. Green Jr.
Succeeded by	Henrietta H. Fore
Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management
In office January 30, 2002 – February 4, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Bradford Higgins
Treasurer of Connecticut
In office January 4, 1995 – July 22, 1997
Governor	John G. Rowland
Preceded by	Joseph Suggs
Succeeded by	Paul J. Silvester
Personal details
Born	Christopher Bancroft Burnham September 28, 1956 New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	Washington and Lee University (BA) Harvard University (MPA)

Education

Burnham graduated from Kent School in 1975. He studied national security policy at Georgetown's National Security Studies Program, and is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and Harvard Kennedy School[4] where he earned a master's degree in public administration.

Career

Burnham is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps Reserve and retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He volunteered for active duty in 1990 and served as an infantry platoon commander in the Gulf War.

From 2006 to December 2012, Burnham was the vice chairman and managing director of Deutsche Asset Management, and a member of the Global Operating Committee. In 2008, Burnham co-founded and led Deutsche Bank's direct private equity group, RREEF Capital Partners, the bank's reentry into private equity after an eight-year absence. He also chaired Deutsche Bank's governance committee in Germany.

Burnham joined the Department of State in September 2001, and has been confirmed twice by the United States Senate. Burnham joined the United Nations[5] after serving as acting Under Secretary of State for Management for Secretary Condoleezza Rice, and as Assistant Secretary of State for resource management and chief financial officer of the State Department for General Colin Powell. He established the first UN Ethics Office, the first United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee, the adoption of new International Public Sector Accounting Standards, the first comprehensive consolidated annual report in the history of the United Nations, and a new whistleblower protection policy that received independent recognition as the “gold standard.”[6]

Burnham served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Mitt Romney presidential campaign and was a member of the Romney Transition Team, and as a member of the President-Elect Trump Transition Team for Rex Tillerson. He serves on the board of directors of Blue Water Defense, located in Puerto Rico, and only after sanctions were lifted, he was appointed to the board of directors of En+ Group, PLC, a publicly listed Russian holding firm formally owned by Oleg Deripaska, who in return for the removal of sanctions, agreed to sell his stake to less than 35%.

In May 2019, Burnham was named to the U.S. Department of Defense Business Board. He is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Cambridge Global Capital, a venture capital investment firm focused on opportunities in life sciences, cyber and data security, and data analytics.

References

1. "CHRISTOPHER BURNHAM COMPANY BIO". Retrieved 2019-01-10.
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-taps-foreign-policy-national-security-advisers/2011/10/06/gIQAnDHzPL_story.html
3. "Christopher Burnham". Cambridge Global. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
4. https://www.cambridgeglobal.com/christopher-burnham/
5. Marilyn V. Swartz (2007). United Nations in Focus: Issues and Perspectives. Nova Publishers. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-1-60021-471-4. In May 2005, the Secretary-General appointed Christopher Burnham to be U.N. Under Secretary-General for Management.
6. Volcker, Paul; January 9, CHRISTOPHER BURNHAM |; 2008. "In the Right Direction". The New York Sun. Retrieved 2019-01-10.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)