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David M. Rubenstein

Business executive

Muckety metrics:

Connections: David M. Rubenstein has direct or once-removed relationships with 3,178 people, organizations or other entities in our database of the most influential people in America. Under a scoring system that gives more weight to direct links, this score is higher than 99% of all entries.

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Muckety connection score: 99

Influence: Rubenstein has a Muckety influence index of 99 out of 100. This is a measure of power and reach compared with others in the U.S. leadership elite.

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Muckety influence score: 99

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David M. Rubenstein

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Gender: Male

Address: Lives and/or works in Washington, DC

Wealth class: Billionaire

Areas of interest:

nonprofits

education

business

politics & government

Personal social network: Much of Rubenstein's Muckety comes from investment and nonprofit connections.

Philanthropy: Rubenstein donated $10 million to the White House Historical Association in 2011. Earlier in the year, he gave $13.5 million to the National Archives. Rubenstein also donated $4.5 to support the panda reproduction program at the National Zoo.

Muckety news stories featuring David M. Rubenstein

If only private jets gave out frequent flier miles

Carlyle's David M. Rubenstein racked up $4.75 million in travel expenses in fiscal 2011.

November 8, 2011

David M. Rubenstein: power hub

There are those in America's leadership elite who forge so many connections to so many other influential people that they become power centers themselves.

September 27, 2011

David M. Rubenstein personal relations:

Alice Rogoff Rubenstein - spouse

Other current David M. Rubenstein relationships:

American Academy in Berlin - trustee

American Council on Germany - director

Brookings Institution - trustee

Carlyle Group - co-founder & co-CEO

Council on Foreign Relations - director

Duke University - trustee

Economic Club of Washington - president

Giving Pledge - participant

Institute for Advanced Study - trustee

James Madison Council of the Library of Congress - member

John F. Kennedy School of Government - dean's council member

Johns Hopkins University - trustee

Kennedy Center - trustee, chairman & corporate fund board member

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - director

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - overseer

National Museum of American History - board member

National Museum of Natural History - board member

Smithsonian Institution - regent

Trilateral Commission - member

University of Chicago - trustee

David M. Rubenstein past relationships:

Asia Society - trustee

Center for Strategic and International Studies - trustee

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - trustee

Freedom House - director

Hoover Institution - overseer

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison - partner

Peterson Institute for International Economics - director

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP - partner

World Economic Forum 2008 - attendee

World Economic Forum 2009 - attendee

World Economic Forum 2010 - attendee

Five degrees of Kevin:

We can connect David M. Rubenstein with Kevin Bacon in four steps:
David M. Rubenstein → Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP →
Philadelphia (PA) → Edmund N. Bacon →

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Indirect links:

David M. Rubenstein has multiple indirect connections to the following people:

Kenneth M. Duberstein

Donald B. Marron

Carla A. Hills

James D. Robinson III

Extended reach:

Among the most influential people in David M. Rubenstein's web of second-degree relationships:

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Helene L. Kaplan

James A. Johnson

TIP: You can search for once-removed connections between two people by entering both their names, separated by AND.

Other activities:

Dance Theatre of Harlem

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Brookings Institution

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