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Orin Kramer is Chair of the State of New Jersey Investment Committee and a General Partner of Kramer Spellman, L.P. managing private investment partnerships concentrated in public equities. Kramer was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the commission to study capital budgeting. He was also on the advisory commission on financial services and a coordinator of President-elect Clinton′s transition team on financial services issues. He was executive director of the California Commission on Ratemaking for Workers Compensation Insurance, vice-chairman and executive director of a special New York commission to study the liability insurance crisis and civil justice reform, and he co-authored the New York DeWind Commission report. He was a member of the financial institutions group at McKinsey & Co., associate director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff, Commissioner of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, and executive director of the New York State Commission on Living Costs and the Economy. Kramer taught financial regulatory law at Columbia Law School and was an associate with the law firm of Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett. Kramer earned his J.D. at Columbia Law School.