John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Mr. Thornton retired in July 2003 as President of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and as a member of the firm’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Thornton is 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 a trustee, fellow or advisory board member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Asia Society, China Institute, China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Eisenhower Fellowships, Financial Services Volunteer Corps, General Atlantic Executive Advisory Board, The 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 received an A.B. in history from Harvard College in 1976, a B.A./M.A. in jurisprudence from Oxford University in 1978 and an M.P.P.M. from the Yale School of Management in 1980. He and his family live in Far Hills, New Jersey.