Barrie A. Wigmore led Goldman Sachs' corporate finance department serving electric and gas utilities, natural gas pipelines, and telephone companies around the world. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a member of the Investment Committee for its $3.5 billion endowment, and Chairman of the Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust. He is the author of The Crash and Its Aftermath: Securities Markets in the United States 1929–1933 (1986), Securities Markets in the 1980s (1995), and a novel, Morgenthal & Co. The Story of an Important Investment Bank 1972–2010 (2013).