Frederick S. Pardee

Frederick S. Pardee (born 1932) is an American economist, real estate investor and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. An alumnus of Boston University, Fred Pardee has now become one of the largest donors to the University. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation from 1957 to 1971. He is a philanthropist and real estate investor who owns and manages apartment buildings in Los Angeles. He has made charitable contributions to the RAND Corporation as well as several universities in the United States and a school in South Africa. His most prominent charitable gift was of US$25 million to Boston University for the establishment of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, named for him.

Frederick S. Pardee was born in 1932. He graduated from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and received a master's degree from its School of Management in 1954. He then served in the United States Air Force.

He worked as a researcher for the RAND Corporation from 1957 to 1971. He then became a real estate investor, owning and managing apartment buildings in Los Angeles.

Fred Pardee has made many charitable contributions to his alma mater Boston University and to the RAND Corporation, where he worked for many years. In 2001, he donated US$5 million for the establishment of the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Human Condition. Two years later, in 2003, he donated US$10 million for graduate student scholarship. As a result, the graduate school was renamed the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in his honor.

He has donated to his alma mater, Boston University. In 2000, his monetary gift to BU led to the establishment of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. In 2013, he donated US$7 million for the Campaign for Boston University, a fundraising campaign. Later that year, he donated US$25 million for the establishment of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, also at Boston University.

He has also donated to the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. In 2007, he donated US$7.45 million for the establishment of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Two years later, in 2009, another gift led to the construction of an annex to Ben Cherrington Hall on the University of Denver campus. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the university. A year later, in 2014, he donated US$4 more million.

Additionally, he has donated to the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the Frederick S. Pardee Library for the Future of Africa was named in his honor in 2009.