David Mark Rubenstein was born on August 11,1949 and is an American lawyer, billionaire investor, philanthropist, and public servant.
35 Facts About David Rubenstein
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David Rubenstein grew up as an only child in a modest Jewish family in Baltimore.
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David Rubenstein's father was employed by the United States Postal Service and his mother was a homemaker.
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David Rubenstein graduated from the college preparatory high school Baltimore City College, an all-male school at the time.
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David Rubenstein earned his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
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David Rubenstein served as a deputy domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and worked in private practice in Washington, DC.
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In 1987, Rubenstein founded The Carlyle Group with William E Conway Jr.
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David Rubenstein has said that he was once offered the opportunity to meet Mark Zuckerberg before he dropped out of Harvard but decided against it, and this is his single greatest investment regret.
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David Rubenstein told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that if he got lucky and everything worked out he would at most be worth $300 million.
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David Rubenstein was publicly criticized for the work of The Carlyle Group of which he is the chairman, which owns a number of mobile home parks and has been pushing poor people out of their mobile homes by hiking up the rental price.
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Rubenstein hosts two shows on Bloomberg Television: The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein.
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David Rubenstein was a co-chair of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in Alaska.
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David Rubenstein was among the initial 40 individuals who have pledged to donate more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes or charities as part of The Giving Pledge.
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In December 2007 David Rubenstein purchased the last privately owned copy of the Magna Carta at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $21.3 million.
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David Rubenstein has lent it to the National Archives in Washington, DC In 2011, Rubenstein gave $13.5 million to the National Archives for a new gallery and visitor's center.
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David Rubenstein has purchased rare so-called Stone copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the Abel Buell map, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Constitution and has lent these documents to the State Department, the National Archives, the National Constitution Center, the Smithsonian and Mount Vernon.
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David Rubenstein was elected chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, starting in May 2010.
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David Rubenstein was vice chairman of the board of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, and chairman of its fundraising drive.
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David Rubenstein was chairman of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
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In December 2011, David Rubenstein donated $4.5 million to the National Zoo for its giant panda reproduction program.
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David Rubenstein donated $10 million to the National Gallery of Art in support of refurbishment and expansion of the East Building of the National Gallery, work that was completed in September 2016.
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David Rubenstein contributed $10 million in 2021 to support digital and other operations of the Gallery.
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On February 15,2016, Presidents' Day, David Rubenstein presented a gift of $18.5 million to the National Park Foundation to expand educational resources, foster public access, and repair and restore the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
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In October 2019, the National Park Foundation announced that David Rubenstein donated $10 million for upgrades to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC The gift funds a new and expanded museum within the memorial that was expected to be completed in time for the memorial's 80th anniversary in 2023.
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David Rubenstein has donated over $100 million to Duke University and served as chair of its board of trustees from 2013 to 2017.
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In 2013, David Rubenstein donated $10 million to fund graduate fellowships and undergraduate internships at the Sanford School of Public Policy.
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In 2014, David Rubenstein donated $1.9 million to Jewish Life at Duke to expand programming, fund building renovations and enhance the college experience for Jewish students.
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In 2015, David Rubenstein gave $25 million towards the construction of a new 71,000-square foot Arts Center.
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David Rubenstein was elected to the board of trustees of the University of Chicago on May 31,2007.
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David Rubenstein has donated $60 million to the Harvard Kennedy School to facilitate its fellowship program and to help build its new campus.
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David Rubenstein is a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the governing body of Harvard University.
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In October 2015, David Rubenstein donated $15 million to the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to create a new hearing center focused on restoring functional hearing loss.
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David Rubenstein is an Emeritus Trustee of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees.
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David Rubenstein has donated $10 million to PBS to help fund Ken Burns documentaries and $5 million to the PBS affiliate in Washington, WETA, to help fund a new headquarters.
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In May 2022, David Rubenstein announced a $15 million donation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to support and expand the growth of its collection.