Doug Haynes is the former President of Point72 Asset Management, the private investment firm that is a part of the world’s largest private equity firm, The Blackstone Group. He has been involved in private equity since 1985 when he joined a small New York City-based hedge fund called LTCM (Long Term Capital Management).

Haynes has also served as President of Piedmont Capital Corporation and as a director at Vornado Realty Trust. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors at American International Group, Inc. He serves on the boards of Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and The Blackstone Group. Haynes also serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the National Committee for an Effective Congress (NCE), and The Economic Club of New York.

Haynes earned his BA in Economics from Columbia University in 1974. He then attended Columbia Business School, where he graduated with an MBA in 1977. Haynes was also a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization. It has a membership of over 2,000 individuals in the United States and around the world. The Council’s stated mission is to foster public understanding of foreign policy and international issues by informing U.S. citizens about global developments and encouraging those in government and business to participate in its discussions. The Council also works with governments and organizations in other countries through its Task Forces on various international issues.

The National Committee for an Effective Congress (NCE) is a non-profit organization that aims to promote policies that make Congress more effective at meeting its constitutional responsibilities, including fiscal responsibility, oversight of the executive branch, transparency, and openness, ethics reform, voting rights reform, campaign finance reform, voting representation for women and minorities, citizen participation in government decision-making processes (e.g., public hearings), and cooperation between the two major political parties.