Robert Rosenkranz

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Robert Rosenkranz
Born (1942-08-05) August 5, 1942 (age 82)
NationalityAmerican
Education Yale University (BA)
Harvard University (LLB)
Occupation(s)Philanthropist and CEO, Delphi Financial Group
Children2, including Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
Website http://robertrosenkranz.com/

Robert Rosenkranz (born August 5, 1942) is an American philanthropist and the chairman of Delphi Capital Management, [1] an investment concern with over $35 billion in assets under management, and the founder of a group of investment and private equity partnerships. From 1987 until 2018 he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Delphi Financial Group, an insurance company with more than $20 billion in assets. Delphi grew from one of his acquisitions and increased its value 100-fold under his leadership. [2]

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A graduate of Yale (summa cum laude) [3] and Harvard Law School, [4] he spent his early career as an economist with the RAND Corporation, where he was engaged in research on foreign policy issues and municipal finance.

He is the founder and chairman of Open to Debate, [5] a public policy debate series that provides a forum for reasoned public discourse, formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. He serves on the board of directors for the Manhattan Institute, [6] the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, [7] the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California, [8] and the Serpentine Galleries [9] and Policy Exchange, the center-right think tank, in London. [10] He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations [11] and of the Visiting Committees for the Departments of Photography and Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Philanthropy

In 1985, Rosenkranz founded the Rosenkranz Foundation [12] with the mission of encouraging fresh perspectives and innovation in public policy, higher education and the arts. One initiative of the foundation is the debate series Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates, established in New York City in 2006. A live event in New York, Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates is broadcast nationally by National Public Radio [13] and televised by Bloomberg TV. [14]

In late 2009, Yale University dedicated its new building, Rosenkranz Hall, in recognition of Rosenkranz's philanthropic work. Rosenkranz Hall is home to Yale's social sciences and international studies departments. [15]

In April 2010, Rosenkranz was honored by the Manhattan Institute with their annual Alexander Hamilton Award, which he received in recognition of his founding of the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate series. [16]

The Rosenkranz Foundation also endowed Yale's Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence program, [17] funded several exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum [18] and promoted Chinese art by sponsoring a major exhibit on Mu Xin [19] donating a large collection to Harvard University, and funded a book series on modern Chinese art by Yale University Press. [20]

Open to Debate Foundation and public policy

Rosenkranz founded Open to Debate in 2006, a live debate series with the goal of raising the level of public discourse and promoting a realization that, on contentious issues, those who challenge the conventional wisdom have intellectually respectable and often persuasive viewpoints. [21] Through an annual series of weekly debates, staged in the Oxford-style and other formats, Open to Debate brings together thought-leaders and audiences together around public policy and cultural issues. The program has been the subject of articles in The New York Times , The New Yorker , and many other publications. [22]

Moderated by ABC's John Donvan, panelists have included Arianna Huffington, P. J. O'Rourke, Karl Rove, David Brooks, Mort Zuckerman, Wesley Clark, Bernard-Henri Lévy and many others. [23]

Rosenkranz writes about public policy and finance for the Huffington Post , [24] and The Wall Street Journal . [25] He is also an investment contributor to Forbes. [26]

Personal life

Rosenkranz lives in East Hampton. He has two children from a marriage to Margret Hill (June 20, 1940 - September 27, 2018) [27] which ended in divorce: Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz and Stephanie Rosenkranz Hessler, both constitutional law scholars. Since June 29, 2002. [28] he has been married to Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim Museum. [29] [30] He is Jewish, [31] but his second marriage was officiated at a Presbyterian church. [28]

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  2. ↑ Intelligence Squared Founder Profile , accessed April 12, 2021
  3. ↑ Yale University accessed May 9, 2011
  4. ↑ Harvard University accessed May 9, 2011
  5. ↑ "Open to Debate Foundation Homepage".
  6. ↑ "Manhattan Institute Board of Trustees". 2 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Whitney Museum Board of Trustees "Whitney Museum Board of Trustees".
  8. ↑ Hoover Institute Overseers "Hoover Institute Overseers".
  9. ↑ "Trustees of the Serpentine Galleries".
  10. ↑ Matt Smith. "Policy Exchange Board of Trustees". Policy Exchange.
  11. ↑ "The Council on Foreign Relations Membership List". Council on Foreign Relations.
  12. ↑ "The Rosenkranz Foundation Home Page".
  13. ↑ "Intelligence Squared U.S." NPR.org. 19 February 2014.
  14. ↑ "That's Debatable on Bloomberg". Bloomberg News .
  15. ↑ "Yale Macmillan Center "Rosenkranz Hall Dedication"".
  16. ↑ Craig, Lindsay Young. "Manhattan Institute Honors Wendy Kopp and Robert Rosenkranz with Alexander Hamilton Award." April 28, 2010. Manhattan Institute Press Release
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  18. ↑ The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989
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  21. ↑ Konigsberg, Eric. The New York Times. June 2, 2007. "A Hobby That’s Part Party, Part Debate, All Intellect"
  22. ↑ "Media & Press". Intelligence Squared US. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  23. ↑ opentodebate. "Open to Debate All Debates".
  24. ↑ Rosenkranz, Robert. The Huffington Post. March 29, 2011. "Notes From the Front: Are We Securing Our Vital Interests Abroad?"
  25. ↑ Rosenkranz, Robert. The Wall Street Journal. January 2, 2009. "Let's Write the Rating Agencies Out of Our Law."
  26. ↑ Rosenkranz, Robert. Forbes.com. July 7, 2015. "Bitcoin's Value Isn't Currently, It's Technology."
  27. ↑ "MARGARET HILL Obituary (2018) - New York, NY - New York Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  28. 1 2 "WEDDINGS; Alexandra Munroe, Robert Rosenkranz". The New York Times. 2002-06-30. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  29. ↑ Administrator. "Guggenheim Curator Profile".
  30. ↑ New York Times Wedding Announcement. June 30, 2002. "WEDDINGS; Alexandra Munroe, Robert Rosenkranz."
  31. ↑ "Today's Debate is on Erotic Art in the Bathroom - Haaretz - In the News - Rosenkranz Foundation". www.rosenkranzfdn.org. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
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