Richard E. Salomon

Richard E. Salomon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He graduated with a BA from Yale University in 1964 and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1967. From 1982 to 2000, he was a managing director to the investment firm Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell. He was then the director of Mecox Ventures, another investment firm. He has advised the Rockefeller family.

He is a managing partner of East End Advisors, LLC, Chairman of the advisory board of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management Group, and a director of Boston Properties.

He is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The New York Public Library. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rockefeller University and a Board member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. In 1984, Salomon was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.