Sunday, February 28, 2021

Peter R. Coneway

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[[File:Assignment- 59-CF-DS-29975-06) Official portrait of Peter Coneway, U.S. Ambassador-designate to Switzerland (Photographer- Mark Stewart--State) (59-CF-DS-29975-06 Amb Coneway WEB fr - DPLA - 8bf07502a03a3dc4df9b0adec77c6305.jpg|thumb|Assignment- 59-CF-DS-29975-06) Official portrait of Peter Coneway, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland (Photographer- Mark Stewart--State)]]

[[File:Defense.gov News Photo 070413-D-2987S-020.jpg|thumb| Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (right) stops by during a meeting with Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England (left) and Swiss Minister of Defense Samuel Schmid (second from left) and U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Peter R. Coneway (second from right) in the Pentagon on April 13, 2007]]

'''Peter Richard Coneway''' (April 13, 1944 [[Harlingen, Texas]] - November 13, 2020 [[Houston, Texas]]) was an investment banker, a member of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System for a six year term, and the in [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Switzerland and Liechtenstein|American Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein]] from 2006 until 2008. <ref></ref>, <ref name="Regent"></ref>, <ref name="Chronicle"></ref>

==Biography==
He grew up in [[Harlingen, Texas]], the son of Albert Earl Coneway, the city attorney and Clara Laroux "Sue" Durham Coneway. Coneway was a running back for the [[Harlingen High School]] Cardinals football team. He earned a BBA in 1966 from the [[McCombs School of Business]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and in 1969, an MBA from the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]].<ref name="Regent" />, <ref name="Legacy"></ref>

==Career==
Coneway served in several leadership positions for [[Goldman Sachs]] for whom he worked from 1969 until he retired as general partner in November 1992. Those positions included resident manager of the Houston office, becoming resident partner in 1978. In 1987 and 1988, he was managing director of the company's Tokyo office.<ref name="Regent" />

Appointed by [[Ann Richards]] to be a University of Texas Regent in February 200$, he resigned on August 12, 1993 because he continued to have “a limited business relationship” with Goldman Sachs and he wanted “to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.”<ref name="Regent" />

In 2009, Riverstone Holdings LLC named him managing director.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://ift.tt/3c2JScj Cables show US concern at Swiss-Iran plan]




[[Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Switzerland]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Liechtenstein]]
[[Category:McCombs School of Business alumni]]
[[Category:Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni]]
[[Category:People from Harlingen, Texas]]
[[Category:American investment bankers]]
[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:University of Texas System regents]]
[[Category:Goldman Sachs people]]


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