Jeffery initially accepted an offer from
Davis Polk & Wardwell, before moving on to
Goldman Sachs in 1983. He became Managing Partner of Goldman Sachs's European Financial Institutions Group in
London in 1992, and then Managing Partner of the Goldman Sachs
Paris office in 1997. Jeffery supported the candidacy of
George W. Bush in the
2000 presidential election. In the wake of
9/11, President Bush appointed Jeffery as his Special Advisor on
Lower Manhattan Development, and in 2002, Jeffery left Goldman Sachs to take on this responsibility. In 2003, Jeffery became a Special Advisor to
L. Paul Bremer, head of the
Coalition Provisional Authority in
Iraq and then became the Representative and Executive Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority Office in
The Pentagon. He served as a member of the
United States National Security Council until 2005, as a Senior Director responsible for International Economic Affairs. Currently he sits in the Board of Directors of
Barclays. In 2005, Jeffery was named the chairman of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission. President Bush nominated Jeffery as
Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs on April 16, 2007 and he was
confirmed by the
United States Senate on June 21, 2007. He was sworn in by
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on June 27, 2007. From 2010 to 2018 Jeffery served as President and CEO of
Rockefeller & Co., a NYC-based asset management firm. On May 8, 2012, Jeffery was reported donating $32,000 to Romney Victory Inc. In 2013, Jeffery was a signatory to an
amicus curiae brief submitted to the
Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the
Hollingsworth v. Perry case. Currently Reuben Jeffery III serves as senior advisor at CSIS (
Center for Strategic and International Studies) and sits on the board of the
American Council of Trustees and Alumni. == Personal life ==