Mr. Thornton serves on the Firm’s Strategic Advisory Board.

Mr. Thornton retired in July 2003 as President of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., where he was also a member of its Board of Directors. Currently, he is a Professor and Director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Mr. Thornton currently holds high-level advisory positions at numerous firms. He serves as Non-executive Director; Non-executive Chairman and Director of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc., a Director of the Ford Motor Company, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Intel, News Corporation, and China Netcom Group Corporation. He is also Chairman of the Brookings Institution Board of Trustees, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and involved as a trustee, fellow or advisory board member at the following organizations: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Asia Society, China Institute, China Securities Regulatory Commission, Eisenhower Fellowships, Financial Services Volunteer Corps, General Atlantic Executive Advisory Board, Hotchkiss School, International Advisory Committee of the China Reform Forum, Morehouse College, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Nelson Mandela Legacy Foundation (U.S.), Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Beijing), and the Yale School of Management.

Mr. Thornton earned a Master of Public and Private Management (M.P.P.M.) from the Yale School of Management, a Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Harvard College.