Frederick S. Pardee

Frederick S. Pardee
Education	Boston University
Occupation	Economist, real estate investor, philanthropist

Frederick S. Pardee (born 1932) is an American economist, real estate investor and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. An alumnus of Boston University, Fred Pardee has now become one of the largest donors to the University. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation from 1957 to 1971. He is a philanthropist and real estate investor who owns and manages apartment buildings in Los Angeles. He has made charitable contributions to the RAND Corporation as well as several universities in the United States and a school in South Africa. His most prominent charitable gift was of US$25 million to Boston University for the establishment of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, named for him.

Frederick S. Pardee was born in 1932. He graduated from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and received a master's degree from its School of Management in 1954. He then served in the United States Air Force.

He worked as a researcher for the RAND Corporation from 1957 to 1971. He then became a real estate investor, owning and managing apartment buildings in Los Angeles.

Fred Pardee has made many charitable contributions to his alma mater Boston University and to the RAND Corporation, where he worked for many years. In 2001, he donated US$5 million for the establishment of the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Human Condition. Two years later, in 2003, he donated US$10 million for graduate student scholarship. As a result, the graduate school was renamed the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in his honor.

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