DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $435 billion from 29 offices around the world.
Mr. Rubenstein is a Baltimore native and is the Chairman, CEO, and principal owner of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.
Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago; a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of Moderna, Inc., rts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other board seats.
Mr. Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge; the host of The David Rubenstein Show, Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein, and Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein; and the author of The American Story, How to Lead, The American Experiment, How to Invest and The Highest Calling.
Held by Elisabeth Glowatzki
DR. ELISABETH GLOWATZKI is the David M. Rubenstein Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. In 2015, she became the first female Professor in the Department. She also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and did postdoctoral fellowships in Tuebingen, Germany, and with Dr. Paul Fuchs at Johns Hopkins’ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. At this early stage of her career, Dr. Glowatzki’s work with Dr. Fuchs already gained international visibility for her seminal work on mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the mammalian inner ear, up until then uncharted territory (Glowatzki and Fuchs, Science 2000; Nature Neuroscience 2002).
For more than two decades, Dr. Glowatzki has been an international leader in her field. Since 2004, Dr. Glowatzki’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins has been continuously R01-funded. Her research has provided an in depth analysis of mechanisms of synaptic transmission, crucial for the coding of the sound signal in the inner ear. Weisz, Glowatzki and Fuchs were the first to report intracellular recordings from a subset of cochlear afferent neurons that may serve as acoustic pain sensors of the inner ear (Nature, 2009). In 2010, Dr. Glowatzki extended her research interests to investigate cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the vestibular endorgans, which sense head position and movement in space (Sadeghi et al., J. Neurosci. 2014). Lately she also studies noise-induced damage, synapse loss (Wu et al. elife, 2020) and regeneration in the inner ear (Vincent et al., in progress). The ultimate goal of her studies is to find approaches to prevent or cure hearing loss and vestibular disorders.
In addition to her impactful work in research, Dr. Glowatzki is a dedicated educator and mentor. Her excellent mentorship is reflected in the success of her graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; most have received one or multiple grants while in her laboratory, and many have successfully secured independent academic positions in the United States and abroad.
DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $435 billion from 29 offices around the world. 