| Robert Rosenkranz | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 5, 1942 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Yale University Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Philanthropist and CEO, Delphi Financial Group |
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| Rosenkranz Foundation webpage | |
Robert Rosenkranz (born August 5, 1942) is a philanthropist and the CEO of Delphi Financial Group, a New York Stock Exchange-listed insurance holding company with assets of over $8 billion, and the founder of a group of investment and private equity partnerships.[1]
A graduate of Yale (summa cum laude)[2] and Harvard Law School,[3] 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 a member of the Yale University Council[4] and the Dean’s Council of the Yale School of Architecture. He serves on the boards of the Manhattan Institute[5] The Film Society of Lincoln Center[6] and the London think tank Policy Exchange.[7] Mr. Rosenkranz is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[8]
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In 1985, Mr. Rosenkranz founded the Rosenkranz Foundation[9] with the mission of encouraging fresh perspectives and innovation in public policy, higher education and the arts. One initiative of the foundation is the monthly debate series, Intelligence Squared U.S. Foundation, founded in 2006. A live event in New York, Intelligence Squared is broadcast nationally by National Public Radio[10] and televised by WNET Public Media/Thirteen.[11]
In late 2009, Yale University dedicated it's new building, Rosenkranz Hall, in recognition of Mr. Rosenkranz's philanthropic work. Rosenkranz Hall is home to Yale's social sciences and international studies departments.[12]
In April 2010, Mr. Rosenkranz was honored by the Manhattan Institute with their annual Alexander Hamilton Award, which he received in recognition of his founding of the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate series.[13]
The Rosenkranz Foundation also endowed Yale's Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence program,[14] and promoted Chinese art by sponsoring a major exhibit on Mu Xin[15] donating a large collection to Harvard University, and funded a book series on modern Chinese art by Yale University Press.[16]
Mr. Rosenkranz founded Intelligence Squared U.S., a live debate series with the goal of raising the level of public discourse and promoting a realization that, on contentious issues, those who challenge the conventional wisdom have intellectually respectable and often persuasive viewpoints.[17] Through an annual series of between 10 and 12 live Oxford-style debates, IQ2US brings together thought-leaders and audiences together around public policy and cultural issues. The program has been the subject of articles in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications.[18]
Moderated by ABC’s John Donvan and produced by Emmy-award winner Dana Wolfe, panelists have included Arianna Huffington, P. J. O'Rourke, Karl Rove, David Brooks, Mort Zuckerman, Wesley Clark, Bernard-Henri Lévy and many others.[19]
Mr. Rosenkranz has written about public policy for the Huffington Post,[20] The Wall Street Journal[21] and other publications.
Mr. Rosenkranz lives in Manhattan in an apartment that reflects his interests in Asian art and modern design, including an important collection of Buddhist sculpture and Chinese art.[22] He is an accomplished photographer whose work has been exhibited in New York City[23]. He has two adult children, Nicholas and Stephanie Rosenkranz, both constitutional law scholars, and is married to Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim Museum.[24]