Presenter

Peter White

Vice Chairman, U.S. Trust

Peter White, Vice Chairman of U.S. Trust, is an educator and adviser to clients of the firm on the human aspects of wealth management, including succession in family enterprise, raising children in material abundance, family governance and strategic planning, and long-term family unity. Mr. White is concerned primarily with the relationship between material abundance and meaning. All of his work places meaning at the core of human existence and endeavor. Mr. White founded a consulting and educational firm, International Skye, in 1986. The firm is best known for the Skye Summer Institute, which is an educational program for young adults centered on responsibility and competence in living a purposeful life. He served from 1992 to 1999 as senior adviser to Bankers Trust Company, where he helped design and develop a program called “Wealth with Responsibility.” From 1999 to July 2005, he served as managing director of Family Advisory Practice at Citigroup Private Bank. Mr. White was visiting professor of Ethics and Family Enterprise at Stetson University and founding director of the Stetson Family Business Center from 1997 to 2000. He is the author of Ecology of Being, published in January 2006. He is a trustee of The Kenyon Review and is a practicing fellow at the Institute for Servant Leadership, in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Peter White received his bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College, with high honors in English Literature, and his juris doctor from Duke University. After his graduation from Duke, he served as law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio and spent the next 16 years in the practice of law. His career included service with the Federal Trade Commission and a special counsel assignment with the U.S. House of Representatives, but most of his practice was as a partner in the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski in Washington, D.C. He left the practice of law to form International Skye in 1986.

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