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Appointment of Walter B. Wriston as Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board

September 03, 1982

The President today appointed Walter B. Wriston as Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board. He will succeed George P. Shultz.

Mr. Wriston is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Citicorp. He has been a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board since its creation in February 1981.

Mr. Wriston has served with Citicorp and its chief subsidiary, Citibank, since 1946. He was named an assistant vice president of Citibank in 1952, a senior vice president in 1958, and executive vice president in 1960. He became president of Citibank in 1967 and was named president of Citicorp when it was formed in 1968. He assumed his present position with Citicorp in 1970.

He is director of six corporations and a member of several business and civic organizations. He is chairman of the Business Council, director of the Economic Council of New York, a member of the Advisory Committee on Reform of the International Monetary System, and a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute.

Mr. Wriston received a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University and an M.A. degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Walter B. Wriston as Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246278

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