Duke's New Sanford School of Public Policy Receives $5.75 Million Gift

October 20, 2009

A Baltimore native, Rubenstein is co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. He graduated from Duke in 1970, serves as a Duke trustee, and is an emeritus member of Sanford’s Board of Visitors. The school’s Rubenstein Hall, which opened in 2005, was named in recognition of a $5 million gift to the project.

Rubenstein is an active civic leader and serves on numerous boards, including those of the Smithsonian Institution, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Rubenstein and his wife, Alice Rogoff Rubenstein, have three children.