Andrew Klaber

Andrew Klaber is a Partner at Paulson & Company, an investment management firm.

Since 2002, Andrew has served as the founder, chairman, and chairman emeritus of Even Ground (www.evenground.org), an international non-profit organization that annually provides more than 2,000 children who have been affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty with academic scholarships, basic healthcare, and nutrition in South Africa and Uganda. Even Ground has received philanthropic support from institutions like the Goldman Sachs, Google, Pfizer, and Levi's foundations and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today, among other publications.

Originally from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Andrew graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa president from Yale College, where he was a Truman Scholar, Udall Scholar, and First-Team USA Today Academic All-American, and received the David Everett Chantler Award for "best exemplifying the qualities of courage, strength of character, and high moral purpose" and Hadley Prize (valedictorian) at graduation. He earned Masters of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, 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.

Klaber received the President's Environmental Youth Award at the White House for his "efforts and commitment to the environment" and the Yale-Jefferson Public Service Award for his "innovative and sustained contributions to society," served with the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Orphaned and Vulnerable Children, and presented Even Ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Andrew rowed on the Yale lightweight crew (2002 national champions), ran in the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamptons, London, New York (2009, 2013, 2016), Paris, Philadelphia, Valencia, and Washington D.C. marathons, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and pedaled 4,200-miles (New Haven, CT to San Francisco, CA) to raise awareness and financial support for Habitat for Humanity.

Andrew serves or has served on the boards of AEI Enterprise Club (Founder), Association of Marshall Scholars (President), Bowery Mission Young Philanthropists, Brookings Society (Founder), Center for Jewish History Legacy Council, Echoing Green Social Investment Council (Co-Chair), Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces Young Leadership, Harvard Law School Overseers' Committee, International Rescue Committee GenR (President), Jewish Museum Young Patrons, Juilliard Club, Learning Matters, Magdalen Society, Morgan Library Young Fellows, Natan, New York Needs You Young Leadership Board, New York Public Library Young Lions, Public Theater Young Partners, Russell Trust Association (Treasurer & Capital Campaign Chair), Truman Scholars Association, United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Young Wall Street (Co-Chair), and Yale Alumni Fund.

Klaber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Term Member Program, Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller Fellowship, Partnership for New York City David Rockefeller Fellows Program, Wexner Heritage Program, Economic Club of New York, and New York State Bar. He is a co-author of the book, Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (2012), and he is a Fellow at Trumbull College, Yale University.