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David M. Rubenstein

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David M. Rubenstein is cofounder and managing director of the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. From its beginning in 1987, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $30 billion from 24 offices around the world. Mr. Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and served as president of Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honorary society. In 1973, he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Law Review. Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York, N.Y., with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1973–1975); served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcomittee on Constitutional Amendments (1975–1976); served as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy in the Carter administration (1977–1981); and practiced law in Washington, D.C., with the firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. He is on the boards of directors or trustees of the Institute for International Economics, Freedom House, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Council on Foreign Relations, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the Dance Theater of Harlem. Mr. Rubenstein is also a member of the Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Dean’s Council of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the National Advisory Committee of J.P. Morgan Chase, the Trustees’ Council of the National Gallery of Art, the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, and the Trilateral Commission.

 
 

 

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