Jared Kushner | |
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Senior Advisor to the President | |
Assumed office January 20, 2017 |
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President | Donald Trump |
Preceded by |
Brian Deese Valerie Jarrett Shailagh Murray |
Personal details | |
Born |
Jared Corey Kushner January 10, 1981 Livingston, New Jersey, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Ivanka Trump (m. 2009) |
Relations |
Joshua Kushner (brother) Murray Kushner (uncle) |
Children | 3 |
Parents |
Charles Kushner Seryl Stadtmauer |
Education |
Harvard University (BA) New York University (MBA, JD) |
Religion | Modern Orthodox Judaism |
Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American real estate investor and developer, publisher, and senior advisor to President Donald Trump. Together with Chief of Staff Reince Preibus and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, he forms Trump's leadership team. Kushner is said to be Donald Trump's most trusted advisor, showing "unwavering loyalty" to his father-in-law.
He is principal owner of the real estate holding and development company Kushner Companies and of Observer Media, publisher of the weekly, on-line New York Observer. On January 9, 2017, Kushner was named to be a Senior White House Adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. As a result, Kushner will resign as CEO of his family's real estate company and as publisher of the New York Observer. He will also divest "substantial assets."
Kushner is the son of American real estate developer Charles Kushner and is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President of the United States Donald Trump. He was among the senior advisors of Trump's presidential campaign, and developed Trump's digital media strategy.
In 2007, his father's company, Kushner Companies, made the most expensive single-building property purchase in US history, acquiring 666 Fifth Avenue. In 2011, Kushner brought in Vornado Realty Trust as a 50% equity partner in the ownership of the building.
Kushner is the elder son of Seryl Kushner (née Stadtmauer) and real estate developer Charles Kushner, whose parents were Holocaust survivors who came to America from Poland in 1949. He has a brother, Joshua (also a businessman), and two sisters, Nicole and Dara. He is also a nephew of Murray Kushner, the owner of Kushner Real Estate Group. Kushner Real Estate Group is separate from Kushner Companies, which Murray Kushner started in 2000.