Education
University of Oxford. Harvard Business School. Yale University; Harvard Law School.
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Andrew Klaber
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Andrew Klaber is the president and founder of Even Ground, an international non-profit organization that annually provides more than 1,500 children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome with academic support, basic health care, and nutrition.
Career
He is also an investor at Paulson & Company, a multi-strategy hedge fund in New New York He rowed on the Yale lightweight crew (2002 national champions), ran in the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamptons, London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Valencia, and Washington, District of Columbia marathons, climbed Mountain. Kilimanjaro, and pedaled 4,200-miles (New Haven, Connecticut to San Francisco, California) to raise awareness and financial support for Habitat for Humanity in 2001.
He co-authored a chapter of the book, Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (2012) and is a Fellow at Trumbull College, Yale University.
Achievements
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Originally from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Klaber attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School, graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa president from Yale College, where he was a Truman Scholar, Udall Scholar, and First-Team United States of America-Today Academic All-American, and received the Arthur Twining Hadley Prize and David Everett Chantler Award for "exemplifying qualities of courage, strength of character and high moral purpose" at graduation. He earned Masters of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, and holds a Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Distinction and as the Dean"s Award winner. Klaber received the President"s Environmental Youth Award at the White House in 2001 for his "successful efforts to persuade schools to buy recycled paper" and "efforts and commitment to help the environment" and the Yale-Jefferson Public Service Award for his "innovative and sustained contributions to society," served with the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Orphaned and Vulnerable Children, and presented Even Ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2008.
Membership
Klaber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Term Member Program, Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller Fellowship, Partnership for New York City David Rockefeller Fellows Program, Economic Club of New York, and New York State Bar.
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