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http://www.carlyle.com/eng/team/l5-team446.htmlDavid M. Rubenstein
Founder
Washington, DC
David M. Rubenstein is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm with 25 offices around the world with more than $34 billion under management. Mr. Rubenstein is based in Washington, DC.
Prior to co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman). Prior to this, during the Carter Administration from 1977-1981, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. From 1975-76, he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. From 1973-75, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Mr. Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from The University of Chicago Law School where he was an editor of the Law Review.
Mr. Rubenstein is on the Board of Directors, Trustees or Overseers of Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Vice Chairman), the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Institute for International Economics, Freedom House and the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Mr. Rubenstein is also a member of the Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Trustees’ Council of the National Gallery of Art, the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, the Trilateral Commission and the National Advisory Committee of JPMorgan Chase.
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