John C. Whitehead is Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation.

He was the Deputy Secretary of State under President Reagan from 1985 to 1989. Mr. Whitehead began his professional career in 1947 at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked for 38 years. He was named Partner in 1956, and Co-Chairman and Senior Partner in 1976. He has served on the boards of numerous companies, and as a Director of the New York Stock Exchange, and Chairman of the Securities Industry Association. In April 1985, Mr. Whitehead was asked to become Deputy Secretary of State, second-in-command to Secretary George Shultz, and served until January 1989.

Mr. Whitehead was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Reagan. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the United Nations Association, the International Rescue Committee, International House, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harvard Board of Overseers, Haverford College, and the Asia Society.

Mr. Whitehead is Co Chairman of the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts, a Director of the Nature Conservancy, the East-West Institute, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships and a former Director of Rockefeller University, Lincoln Center Theater, the J. Paul Getty Trust, Outward Bound, and the National Humanities Center. In Washington, Mr. Whitehead is Chairman Emeritus of the Brookings Institution and the Trustees Council of the National Gallery of Art.

In late 2001, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the organization responsible for the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan.