Andrew Klaber

Andrew Klaber
Nationality United States
Alma mater Yale University
Oxford University
Harvard Law School
Harvard Business School
Employer Paulson & Co.

Andrew Klaber is the president and founder of Even Ground (previously Orphans Against AIDS),[1] an international non-profit organization that annually provides more than 1,500 children[2] who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS with academic support, basic health care, and nutrition. He is also an investor at Paulson & Company, a multi-strategy hedge fund in New York.

Originally from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Klaber attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School,[3] graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa president[4] from Yale College, where he was a Truman Scholar,[5] Udall Scholar,[6] and First-Team USA-Today Academic All-American,[7] 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.[8] He earned Masters of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History as a Marshall Scholar[9] at Oxford University, and holds a JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Distinction and as the Dean's Award winner.[10]

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"[11] and the Yale-Jefferson Public Service Award for his "innovative and sustained contributions to society,"[12] served with the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Orphaned and Vulnerable Children,[13] and presented Even Ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2008.[14] He rowed on the Yale lightweight crew (2002 national champions),[15] ran in the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamptons, London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Valencia, and Washington, D.C. marathons, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro,[16] and pedaled 4,200-miles (New Haven, CT to San Francisco, CA) to raise awareness and financial support for Habitat for Humanity in 2001.[17]

Klaber serves or has served on the boards of several organizations, including the Yale Alumni Fund,[18] Harvard Law School Overseers Committee,[19] Co-Chair of the Echoing Green Social Investment Council,[20] Magdalen Society,[21] President of the Association of Marshall Scholars,[22] Truman Scholars Association,[23] Learning Matters,[24] AEI Enterprise Club,[25] Brookings Society,[26] Bowery Mission Young Philanthropists,[27] International Rescue Committee GenR,[28] New York Public Library Young Lions,[29] Public Theater Young Partners,[30] Co-Chair of the United Jewish Appeal Young Wall Street Executive Board,[31] Natan,[32] New York Needs You Young Leadership Board,[33] and Russell Trust Association.[34]

Klaber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Term Member Program,[35] Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller Fellowship, Partnership for New York City David Rockefeller Fellows Program,[36] Economic Club of New York,[37] and New York State Bar.[38] 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.[39]

References

  1. ↑ "Even Ground Board". Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Even Ground "About Us"". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Notable Alumni". Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  4. ↑ "Yale Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Officers". Retrieved 3 January 2006.
  5. ↑ "Yale Rower Receives Prestigious Truman Scholarship". Retrieved 22 May 2003.
  6. ↑ "Four Yale Seniors Win Morris K. Udall Scholarship". Retrieved 9 February 2006.
  7. ↑ "All-USA Academic First Team - USATODAY.com". USA Today. Retrieved 2 July 2004.
  8. ↑ "Yale Senior Honored for Moral Character". Retrieved 23 May 2004.
  9. ↑ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar". Retrieved 13 January 2007.
  10. ↑ "Harvard Students Honored for Service to the School and Society". Retrieved 17 May 2010.
  11. ↑ "Klaber Receives EPA Youth Award". Retrieved 4 May 2001.
  12. ↑ "Public service saluted in third annual Yale-Jefferson Public Service Awards". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  13. ↑ "Klaber to serve on UNICEF task force". Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  14. ↑ Kristof, Nicholas D. (27 January 2008). "OP-ED COLUMNIST; The Age Of Ambition". The New York Times. p. 18. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  15. ↑ "Yale Crew Champions and Highlights". Retrieved 16 December 2005.
  16. ↑ https://www.mpowerd.com/andrew
  17. ↑ http://www.marshallscholarship.org/scholars/profiles/2004scholars/i-m
  18. ↑ "Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities--Contributors' biographies". December 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  19. ↑ "Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities--Contributors' biographies". December 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  20. ↑ "Echoing Green Social Investment Council Leadership". Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  21. ↑ "Magdalen Society Executive Committee". Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  22. ↑ "Association of Marshall Scholars Board Roster" (PDF). Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  23. ↑ "Truman Scholars Association 2009-2010 Board of Directors". Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  24. ↑ "Learning Matters Board". Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  25. ↑ "2014-2015 David Rockefeller Fellows". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  26. ↑ "2014-2015 David Rockefeller Fellows". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  27. ↑ "2014-2015 David Rockefeller Fellows". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  28. ↑ "Welcome to GenR!". Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  29. ↑ "New York Public Library Young Lions Committee". Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  30. ↑ "Public Theater Young Partner Board". Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  31. ↑ "UJA Young Wall Street Executive Board". Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  32. ↑ "Natan Board". Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  33. ↑ "NYNY Young Leadership Board" (PDF). Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  34. ↑ "Russell Trust Tax Return". Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  35. ↑ "Council on Foreign Relations Membership Roster". Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  36. ↑ "2014-2015 David Rockefeller Fellows". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  37. ↑ "Economic Club of New York membership". Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  38. ↑ "New York State Unified Court System, Attorney Detail". Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  39. ↑ "Listing of Fellows for Trumbull College". Retrieved 23 March 2014.
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