Theodore Roosevelt IV
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Theodore Roosevelt IV (born November 27, 1942), is a managing director in the senior client coverage group of Lehman Brothers. A great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and the Foreign Policy Association. Roosevelt is also a prominent conservationist and environmentalist.[1] He is married to Constance Lane Rogers (born 1942), and their son is Theodore Roosevelt V.
[edit] Early years
Roosevelt earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, served in the U.S. Navy as a SEAL (BUD/s class 36), and then served in the U.S. State Department as a foreign service officer in Washington, D.C. and Upper Volta. He later earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School (1972).
[edit] Public Service
Roosevelt was the chairman of the League of Conservation Voters and the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. He remains a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History. He is a member of the board of directors of the World Resources Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Wilderness Society. Roosevelt is also a director of the University of Wyoming's Institute for Environmental and Natural Resources.
