David M. Rubenstein
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David M. Rubenstein at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, 2009
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| Born |
August 11, 1949 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater |
Duke University University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group |
| Net worth |
 US $ 2.5 billion (November 2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Alice Nicole Rogoff |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | http://www.davidrubenstein.com/ |
David Mark Rubenstein (born August 11, 1949) is an American financier and philanthropist best known as co-founder and co-chief executive officer of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity investment company based in Washington D.C. He is also currently serving as chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, co-chair of the board of trustees at the Brookings Institution, and chairman of the board of trustees at Duke University, his alma mater. According to the Forbes ranking of the wealthiest people in America, Rubenstein has a net worth of $2.5 billion.
Rubenstein grew up an only child in a Jewish family in an exclusively Jewish neighborhood in Baltimore. His beginnings were modest. His father was employed by the United States Postal Service and his mother was a homemaker.
He graduated from the college preparatory high school Baltimore City College, at the time an all-male school, and then from Duke University Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1970. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
From 1973 to 1975, Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Prior to starting Carlyle in 1987, with William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello, Rubenstein was a deputy domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and worked in private practice in Washington, D.C.
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