Education
Harvard Law School.
philanthropist Chief Executive Officer
Harvard Law School.
A graduate of Yale (summa cum laude) and Harvard Law School, he spent his early career as an economist with The Research and Development Corporation, where he was engaged in research on foreign policy issues and municipal finance. He serves on the boards of the Manhattan Institute, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the London-based think tank Policy Exchange. In 1985, Rosenkranz founded the Rosenkranz Foundation with the mission of encouraging fresh perspectives and innovation in public policy, higher education and the arts
One initiative of the foundation is the monthly debate series, Intelligence Squared, brought to New York in 2006.
A live event in New York, Intelligence Squared is broadcast nationally by National Public Radio and televised by W National Educational Television Public Media/Thirteen. In late 2009, Yale University dedicated its new building, Rosenkranz Hall, in recognition of Rosenkranz"s philanthropic work.
Rosenkranz Hall is home to Yale"s social sciences and international studies departments. In April 2010, Rosenkranz was honored by the Manhattan Institute with their annual Alexander Hamilton Award, which he received in recognition of his founding of the Intelligence Squared United States. debate series.
The Rosenkranz Foundation also endowed Yale"s Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence program, funded several exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and promoted Chinese art by sponsoring a major exhibit on Mu Xin donating a large collection to Harvard University, and funded a book series on modern Chinese art by Yale University Press.
Rosenkranz founded Intelligence Squared United States. in 2006, a live debate series with the goal of raising the level of public discourse and promoting a realization that, on contentious issues, those who challenge the conventional wisdom have intellectually respectable and often persuasive viewpoints. Through an annual series of between 10 and 12 live Oxford-style debates, IQ2US brings together thought-leaders and audiences together around public policy and cultural issues. The program has been the subject of articles in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications.
Rosenkranz writes about public policy and finance for the Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
He is also an investment contributor to Forbes.
He is a member of the Yale University Council and the Dean’s Council of the Yale School of Architecture. Rosenkranz is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.