Education
Wall Spitzer graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Meredith College, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2011.
Wall Spitzer graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Meredith College, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2011.
According to a Vogue article, she has worked in the private, nonprofit and public sectors as she has sought to advance the New York economy and promote progress on green/sustainability issues, youth service/education, and human rights and women"s financial and other empowerment. Currently, she is Director & Principal at NewWorld Capital Group, a private equity firm investing in environmental opportunities, including energy efficiency, clean energy, water, waste-to-value and environmental products/services. She is the ex-wife of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and was the First Lady of New York State from January 2007 until March 2008.
Wall Spitzer grew up in Concord, North Carolina.
Her father, Robert, was a hospital administrator, and her mother, Trilby, was a homemaker. She was raised as a Southern Baptist.
She received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984. Currently, she is Director & Principal at NewWorld Capital Group, a private equity firm investing in growth equity and infrastructure project finance environmental opportunities, including energy efficiency, clean energy, water, waste-to-value and environmental products/services.
She began her legal career with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, specializing in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance.
She is a founding co-chair of Project Cicero, the annual New York City book drive which builds classroom libraries in under-resourced schools. In 1996, she co-founded Children for Children, a not-for-profit organization, to engage children from an early age in volunteering and serviceāhelping them develop leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and social/emotional skillsets to become civically, community and philanthropically involved adults promoting community involvement and civic engagement. She served as its President and Chair until 2007.
CFC has become the youth service division of Points of Light, and is now called generationOn.
As the wife of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, she was the First Lady of New York State from January 2007 until March 2008. From 2008-2011, she was Managing Director at Metropolitan Capital Advisors, a woman-owned hedge fund.
Among her not-for-profit activities, she serves as Vice-Chair of Home Urban Green Council, is on the Ceres President"s Council and the Sustainability Institute"s Advisory Board. She served on the Boards of Points of Light and generationOn until 2015.
She then joined The Chase Manhattan Bank, North.A. as a member of its International Legal Group. She served on the New York Blue Ribbon Commission on Youth Leadership as well as the board of the Children"s Museum of Manhattan from 1995 until January 1999, where she was a member of its executive committee and chaired its program committee. She is also a Board member of her alma mater Meredith College, and of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, as well as an Honorary Trustee of Number Bully.