David Rubenstein
David Rubenstein is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. Prior to this, he practiced law with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. Rubenstein also served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Before his White House service, Rubenstein served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. He spent his early career practicing law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
David Rubenstein Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
Academic History
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Juris Doctor (JD)
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Bachelor's Degree, Magna Cum Laude
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Chairman of the Harvard Global Advisory Council
- Chairman of the Madison Council of the Library of Congress
- Regent of the Smithsonian Institution
- President of the Economic Club of Washington
- Board Member of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Board Member of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Trustee of The National Gallery of Art
- Trustee of Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Trustee of University of Chicago
- Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study
- Trustee of the Brookings Institution
- Trustee of the World Economic Forum
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of The Business Council
- Member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors of the Business School at Harvard
- Member of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University
- Member of the Board of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community
- Fellow at the Harvard Corporation
EARLY LIFE AND PHILANTHROPY
- Rubenstein is a native of Baltimore.
- He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge.
- He was a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award.
- He is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS.