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Peter R. Coneway
Ambassador, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Term of Appointment: 09/07/2006 to present

Peter R. Coneway was nominated by President Bush to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein in May 2006. Mr. Coneway was sworn in by Secretary of State Rice on September 7, 2006 and he arrived in Bern on September 21 to assume his duties. 

An Advisory Director with Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Coneway joined the firm in 1969 after graduating with an MBA from Stanford University. He founded the Houston office for Goldman Sachs in 1975, was named a general partner in 1978, established the firm’s equities sales, trading and research division in Tokyo in 1987-88 and then returned to manage the Houston office.

He served as immediate past Chairman and a member of the Board of Visitors for The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, a Trustee of the Texas Heart Institute, a Trustee of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and a past member of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution, Chairman of the Stanford Business School Trust, Director of the Greater Houston Partnership and Chairman of the Houston/Harris County Sports Facility Public Advisory Committee.

A 1966 graduate of the College of Business Administration at The University of Texas, Mr. Coneway received the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award in 1983, was appointed to the UT System Board of Regents in 1993, was named a Distinguished Alumnus in October 2003, and received the McCombs Business School Hall of Fame award in 2004.



Released on October 26, 2006

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