Co-CEO, Bridgewater Associates

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 Aspen Strategy Group

Biography

David McCormick is Co-CEO and a member of the Management Committee for Bridgewater Associates, a global macro investment firm with over $120 billion in assets under management, and the world’s largest hedge fund. Prior to joining Bridgewater, he was U.S. Treasury Under-Secretary for International Affairs in the Bush Administration and prior to that Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Policy. From 1999-2005 Dr. McCormick was an entrepreneur, serving as CEO of Freemarkets and President of Ariba, two publicly traded software companies, and earlier in his career he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point and has a PH.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a former Army officer and a veteran of the first Gulf War.