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David M. Rubenstein is a cofounder and coexecutive chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms.
Mr. Rubenstein is chairman of the boards of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Council on Foreign Relations; a fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a regent of the Smithsonian Institution; a trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; a director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and president of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
Mr. Rubenstein has served as chairman of the board of trustees of Duke University and the Smithsonian Institution, and cochairman of the board of the Brookings Institution.
Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of the Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
Mr. Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS, and the author of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (Simon & Schuster, 2019).
Mr. Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Following Duke, he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Prior to cofounding Carlyle in 1987, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York and in Washington, and during the Carter administration he was deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy.
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