Liz Peek

Liz Peek (born January 10, 1949) is an American commentator and business analyst on the finance industry and government.

Peek in February 2018

Education

Peek graduated as a Durant scholar from Wellesley College with an Honors Degree. [1] She is a CFA Charterholder.

Career

Peek spent more than 20 years on Wall Street as a research analyst focused on the oil industry. She began working for Wertheim & Company in 1975 and in 1983, was one of the first women to become partner at a Wall Street investment firm.[1][2] She left Wall Street in 1990 to raise her children, but remained active as a commentator.[2] She has written for The Fiscal Times, Fox News,[3] the New York Sun, The Wall Street Journal, Alternate Universe, the Motley Fool, and Women on the Web and has appeared on Fox Business with Neil Cavuto and Fox & Friends.[4]

Peek was the first woman elected president of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts and was also a member of Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.

In August 2012, she was named chair of the Board of Trustees of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), a college in the State University of New York system.[5] In February 2013, was awarded the statuette of a spool of thread award by FIT's Couture Council.[6][7]

Peek is also the executive vice president of the board of Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy and served as a board and executive committee member of the School of American Ballet. She is also chairperson of the fundraising organization for The Museum at FIT and member of the board of the FIT Foundation.[5][7]

Personal life

Liz Peek and her husband Jeff Peek, former CEO of CIT Group, have three children.[8][2] During the 2009 financial crisis, Peek was portrayed by a Wall Street Journal article, which outed her as an anonymous source complaining about having to scale-down their material spending.[9] “The good news is that Americans have short attention spans (...) Before long, some other group will come along to absorb all the frustration and anger. Meanwhile, I’m off to the tailors to get clothes altered.” [10] In October 2019, their son Andrew Peek, Donald Trump's Europe and Russia adviser, was abruptly placed on administrative leave from his position as Head of European and Russian Affairs at the NSC and is currently under an as-yet unknown security-related investigation.[11]

References
  1. "About". Liz Peek. Liz Peek. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. "Liz Peek". Huffington Post. Huffington Post. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  3. "Liz Peek". Fox News. November 28, 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. "Liz Peek".
  5. Fein, Cheri (August 7, 2012). "Fashion Institute of Technology - State University of New York". Fashion Institute of Technology - State University of New York. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  6. "Well-earned honor". Page Six. February 2, 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  7. "A great New York success story". New York Social Diary. June 16, 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  8. Pressler, Jessica (July 13, 2009). "Liz Peek May Not Be a TARP Wife Much Longer". New York Magazine. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  9. Robert Frank (Apr 22, 2009). "TARP Wife Cries Crocodile-Bag Tears". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  10. Kirsten Fleming (Apr 22, 2009). "POOR BAILOUT WIFE: I CAN'T FLAUNT MY $$". NYPost. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  11. Porter, Tom (20 January 2020). "Trump's Russia adviser was escorted from the White House after 2 months on the job, as part of a mysterious security probe". Business Insider.
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