| 1 | Name: | Mr. David Rockefeller | |
| Institution: | Rockefeller University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1959 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 302. Economics | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1915 | ||
| Death Date: | March 20, 2017 | ||
Born in 1915 into the famous Rockefeller oil family, David Rockefeller was a prominent businessman, banker and cultural philanthropist. A graduate of Harvard University (1936), he also studied at the London School of Economics and received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1940. In 1946 he joined the staff of the Chase National Bank, which subsequently became the Chase Manhattan Bank. Rockefeller served as its chairman and chief executive from 1969-80 and as chairman until 1981, continuing in the role of chairman of the bank's International Advisory Committee until 1999. A noted internationalist and supporter of the arts, Rockefeller was also the founder and Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, Chairman Emeritus of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Honorary Chairman of Rockefeller University, Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and Honorary Chairman of the Council of the Americas, as well as a non-executive board member at the Institute for International Economics. He was a regular attendee of the Bilderberg Conference and had acted as spokesman for the U.S. business community on several occasions. Rockefeller's publications include Unused Resources and Economic Waste (1940), Creative Management in Banking (1964) and Memoirs (2002). He died March 20, 2017 at the age of 101. | |||