David Rubenstein

David Rubenstein is the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an American private equity firm. Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from the Baltimore City College and then from Duke University magna cum laude in 1970. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Prior to starting Carlyle, Rubenstein was a domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Rubenstein is also active in philanthropy, and has made large gifts to Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago on May 31, 2007.
In the 2007 Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest Americans, Rubenstein was ranked 165th with a net worth of $2.5 billion.[1]

[edit] External links
Carlyle biography
U Chicago Chronicle article

[edit] References
^ #165 David Rubenstein. Forbes.com (2007-09-20). Retrieved on 2007-10-07.