American University of Central Asia - AUCA

MATTHEW NIMETZ

Matthew Nimetz is an Advisory Director (formally Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, 2000-2011) of General Atlantic LLC, a leading private investment firm with more than $15 billion under management focusing globally on growth companies

Mr. Nimetz also serves as the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in connection with the continuing negotiations between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a position he assumed in 1999. From March 1994 through September 1995, Mr. Nimetz served as President Clinton’s Special Envoy in the mediation of the dispute between the two partieswhich concluded with the signing of the Interim Accord in 1995.

Prior to joining General Atlantic in January 2000, Mr. Nimetz was a partner (and former chair) of the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, where he concentrated on corporate and international law from December 1980 through January 2000. He previously practiced law as an associate, and partner, of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett between 1969 and 1977.

Mr. Nimetz served as Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology from February through December 1980 and as Counselor of the Department of State (1977-1980). In those capacities, he supervised United States security assistance programs and the Department’s international scientific and technological programs, including scientific and technical cooperation, nuclear nonproliferation issues, and international environmental and communications policies of the U.S. Government. He was active in setting and developing U.S. policy relating to the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, Cyprus), Mexico, Northern Ireland, Micronesia and supervised numerous other projects. He was also responsible for coordinating human rights and related policies with reference to Eastern European countries under the Helsinki Final Act.

His previous federal government positions include service as a Staff Assistant to President Lyndon Johnson from July 1967 to January 1969; and as a law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1967. In addition, Mr. Nimetz served as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1975 to 1977), and as Chairman of the United Nations Development Corporation (a New York City public corporation) as an appointee of Mayors Koch and Dinkins (1986-1994). He served in 1974 as executive director of NY Governor-elect Hugh Carey’s transition and served on Governor Carey’s Health Advisory Council.

Mr. Nimetz was born in New York, and received degrees from Williams College and the Harvard Law School where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He also has an M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mr. Nimetz serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, member and former chair of the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, a trustee of both Central European University, Budapest, and American University of Central Asia, chair of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York, a director of Green City Force, a Brooklyn-based training organization for disadvantaged youths, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Development Economics at Williams College. He served previously as founding chair of World Resources Institute, a trustee of Williams College, a director of The Charles H. Revson Foundation, a trustee of Committee for Economic Development and a director of The Nature Conservancy of New York.

Mr. Nimetz lives in New York City. He is married to Ann M. Nimetz and has a daughter, Alexandra, and a son, Lloyd.