David M. Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is a financier, philanthropist, interviewer, author, and historian. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group and principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He hosts two shows on Bloomberg TV and is the New York Times bestselling author of five books including his most recent The Highest Calling. David coined a type of giving called “patriotic philanthropy”, which aims to improve education through historical preservation, including repairing monuments and memorials in Washington, DC. He is Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago. David is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.