Please join the Professors of the Practice Business and Enterprise Program and the Center for Careers and Internships on Friday, March 13th in welcoming John Waldron ’91, President and Chief Operating Officer back to campus.

This event will be presented in a Q&A format moderated by Professor of the Practice Frank Van Gansbeke and is open to Middlebury College students, faculty, staff, and community.

  • What’s Next for the Domestic and Global Economy – a Goldman Sachs Perspective with John Waldron ’91; 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. in MBH 220 – Registration Required

John Waldron ’91, President and Chief Operating Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. will share his thoughts as part of Middlebury’s Professors of the Practice Business and Enterprise Program. John is president and chief operating officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He is a member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee and chair of the Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee and Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee.

Previously, John was co-head of the Investment Banking Division (IBD) from 2014 to 2018. Prior to that, he was global head of Investment Banking Services (IBS)/Client Coverage for IBD and had oversight of the IBS Leadership Group, a group he founded in 2010. Earlier in his career, he was global co-head of the Financial Sponsors Group from 2007 to 2009, co-head of Leveraged Finance from 2005 to 2007 and co-head of the Media and Entertainment Group in IBD from 2002 to 2005. John joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 and was named managing director in 2001 and partner in 2002. John is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Trustees Committee of The Lawrenceville School. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York, co-chairman of Youth, I.N.C., and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. John graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College with a BA in English in 1991.