Robert Rosenkranz | |
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| Born | August 5, 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
| Occupation(s) | Philanthropist and CEO, Delphi Financial Group |
| Children | 2, 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]
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.