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Mission |
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The mission of The Rosenkranz Foundation is to encourage the highest levels of achievement and innovation in public policy, higher education and the arts. It seeks to promote fresh and effective intellectual perspectives. It is committed to promoting intellectual diversity in public policy discourse and higher education.
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History |
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| The Rosenkranz Foundation was established by Robert Rosenkranz in 1985. Its focus is on public policy research, higher education, and the arts, with an emphasis on Asian art. In public policy, it has initiated the Intelligence Squared US (IQ2 US) series of debates in the United States, launching in September 2006, and has supported such think tanks as the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute. In higher education, it has made several grants to Yale University, funding the creation of 20 new courses in scientific method and quantitative reasoning, endowing the Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence program there, and underwriting the renovation of Rosenkranz Court in Pierson College. It also provides support for The Federalist Society and other initiatives to promote intellectual diversity in legal education. In Asian art, it has sponsored a major traveling exhibition and scholarly catalogue on the artist and writer Mu Xin, donated a substantial collection of modern Chinese art to the Harvard University Art Museums and has helped fund the production of a series of books on the culture and civilization of China published by Yale University Press. The Rosenkranz Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. |
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Intelligence Squared US
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Grant-Making & Applications |
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The Rosenkranz Foundation does not accept unsolicited applications for grants.
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Directors |
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 Robert Rosenkranz is the Chairman and controlling shareholder of Delphi Financial Group, a New York Stock Exchange-listed insurance holding company with assets of over $5 billion. Delphi has been among the best performing insurance companies in the U.S. stock market over the past 15 years.
Mr. Rosenkranz is also the principal of the Acorn and Pergamon families of investment partnerships, and of Rosenkranz & Company, a private equity firm. He founded Acorn as a multi-manager, multi-strategy investment program nearly 25 years ago. Acorn and other of Mr. Rosenkranz’s affiliates manage assets exceeding $1 billion invested in a broadly diversified global mix of hedge funds and proprietary strategies.
He is a member of the Yale University Council and the Dean’s Council of the Yale School of Architecture. He serves on the boards of the Manhattan Institute and Film Society of Lincoln Center. He is a member of the visiting committees for the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton as well the Departments of Asian Art and Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Rosenkranz is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
A graduate of Yale University (A.B. summa cum laude 1962) and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1965), he was a tax lawyer with the New York law firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel and an economist with The RAND Corporation, where he was engaged in research on foreign policy issues and municipal finance. In 1969, he joined Oppenheimer & Co. where he was a General Partner when he left to form Rosenkranz & Company in 1978.
Mr. Rosenkranz lives in Manhattan in an apartment that reflects his interests in Asian art and modern design. He has two children, Nicholas and Stephanie, and is married to Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim Museum.
 Stephanie Rosenkranz Hessler is Counsel for the Constitution on the staff of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. She graduated from Kenyon College and New York University Law School. She was president of the Federalist Society chapter at NYU. After graduating from law school, Ms. Hessler clerked for the Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit, the Honorable Boyce F. Martin, Jr. Following her clerkship, she practiced law at Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Derringer LLP in New York, specializing in international arbitration.
 Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School, and then clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1999-2000) and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the U.S. Supreme Court (October Term 2001). After clerking, he served as an Attorney-Advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S Department of Justice (Nov 2002 – July 2004). He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he also serves on the national Board of Visitors of the Federalist Society. He has testified as an expert before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and his scholarship has appeared only in the nation's preeminent law reviews. His research interests include constitutional law, foreign affairs law, international law, federal jurisdiction, and statutory interpretation.
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Senior Staff |
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 Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D. is Senior Curator of Asian Art for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Senior Advisor to The Rosenkranz Foundation. She served as Vice President of Arts & Culture at the Japan Society in New York and was its museum director from 1998 to 2005. Dr. Munroe is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of modern Asian art for her landmark exhibitions and publications including Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective (1989); Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky (1994); The Art of Mu Xin (2002); and YES YOKO ONO (2000), which won First Prize for Best Museum Show Originating in New York City by the International Association of Art Critics and drew one million visitors over a 13-city international tour. For two consecutive years, The New York Times selected exhibitions Dr. Munroe directed as Number One Best Show of the Year. She holds a B.A. from Sophia University, Tokyo, an M.A. from New York’s Institute of Fine Arts and recently earned her Ph.D. in History from New York University, where her research was modern Japanese intellectual history. Dr. Munroe publishes widely and lectures frequently on Asian art in Europe, North America and Asia. She is a Trustee of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; the Alliance for the Arts; LongHouse Reserve; and the American Friends of the Royal Court Theatre. She is a member of The Century Club and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Alexandra Munroe Photo Credit: Fernando Begoechea
 S. Dana Wolfe is Executive Director of The Rosenkranz Foundation and the Executive Producer of Intelligence Squared US (IQ2 US), the New York forum for Oxford-style debating, which launched a series of eight annual debates in fall 2006. IQ2 US is an initiative of The Rosenkranz Foundation. Ms. Wolfe is a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who spent over a decade as a producer for Ted Koppel's Nightline on ABC News. During the course of her career, she has conducted interviews with leading newsmakers, heads of state, and celebrities, including Salman Rushdie, Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright, Yasser & Suha Arafat, and Yitzhak Rabin. After her Nightline tenure, Ms. Wolfe became an independent media consultant. She worked on projects for many news divisions including ABC News, CNBC, CNN, PBS Now, Israeli Television, and had a long association as Senior Producer with Reel Biography, a New York-based production company. Prior to Nightline, she worked for then-Ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu at Israel's United Nations Mission and later became assistant managing editor at the Washington, DC-based foreign policy journal The National Interest. A Canadian native, she began her television career in Toronto at CTV's Canada AM. Ms. Wolfe received her B.A. from York University in Toronto and her M.A. in International Studies from New York University. She lives with her husband and two children in Cresskill, New Jersey.
Contact Us
The Rosenkranz Foundation
590 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
212-303-4322
212-303-4475 fax
info@rosenkranzfdn.org
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