CEO@Smith Speaker Series

David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Frank Auditorium, Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

David M. Rubenstein is a co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, co-founded by Rubenstein in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $100 billion from 27 offices around the world.

A native of Baltimore, Rubenstein is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Following Duke, Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from The University of Chicago Law School, where he served as an editor of the Law Review.

From 1973-75, he practiced law in New York City with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Following that, from 1975-76 he served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. During the Carter Administration, Rubenstein was deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. After his White House service and prior to co-founding Carlyle, Rubenstein practiced law in Washington, D.C. with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman).

Rubenstein is chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the President of the Economic Club of Washington. He also serves as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution and on the board of directors or trustees of Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the American Academy in Berlin, American Council on Germany, and Ford’s Theatre.

He is a member of many distinguished organizations, some of which include the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors, the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Board of Trustees of the Young Global Leaders Foundation, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.