 Henry "Hank" Paulson, the chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs, has been nominated as the US treasury secretary. He will take over the role from John Snow, who is resigning after three years in the job. Mr Paulson has been chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs since May 1999, when the bank went public. It is not his first time working in the White House. He was a member of the domestic council as staff assistant to President Nixon in 1972. He joined Goldman Sachs in Chicago in 1974, and became chief executive in 1994. Outside of the financial world he is reputed to be an avid nature-lover, and is chairman of the board of The Nature Conservancy in the US. ...
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