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David M. Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein, captured during the session 'Myths and Realities of Private Equity' at the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2008.
Born	Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Managing Director of the Carlyle Group

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. From 1973-75, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. 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 and is married to Alice Rogoff Rubenstein, founder of the Alaska House New York and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation.

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.

On December 18, 2007, David Rubinstein purchased the last privately owned copy of the Magna Carta at Sotheby's auction house in New York for 21.3 million dollars. He announced that it would be housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C.

Quotes

"When history is written and people talk about the great protests, I don't think that this will be in that category." --Comparing what in his view were the great civil disobedience efforts of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King to the protests by the Working Families Party concerning the tax treatment of private equity firms.

"We put [Bush] on the board and [he] spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company. He said, well I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board. And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things."

External links

• Carlyle biography of David Rubenstein
• U Chicago Chronicle article