Peter Baldwin (professor)

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Peter Baldwin
Born1956
OccupationProfessor & philanthropist

Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956) [1] is a research professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, and a philanthropist. [2]

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Academic career

He was educated at Harvard (MA and PhD, both in History 1980 and 1986), and Yale (BA Philosophy and History, 1978). [3] He has written several books on the comparative history of Europe and America.

Baldwin also serves on the boards of the New York Public Library, [4] the American Council of Learned Societies, [5] the Central European University, [6] and as chair of the board of the Center for Jewish History. [7]

Philanthropy

With his wife Lisbet Rausing, who is an heir of the Tetra Pak fortune, Baldwin co-founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001. The Fund has given away over $1 billion to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access. [8]

Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, [9] The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library [10] and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund.

Baldwin joined the advisory board of the Wikimedia Endowment in 2016. [11] Baldwin and Rausing gave $5 million to the Wikimedia Endowment in 2017 [12] and are listed among the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation. [13]

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  1. Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities  linked authority file (LAF) .
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