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Welcome & Introduction - Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture

Academy President David Oxtoby welcomes everyone to the third annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture, the final event of the 2019 Induction weekend. David M. Rubenstein introduces the featured guest: playwright, actress, and author Anna Deavere Smith. Held on Sunday, October 13, 2019, the Rubenstein Lecture served as the 2084th Stated Meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. ---------- David W. Oxtoby is the President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is President Emeritus of Pomona College and he was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education prior to becoming President of the American Academy. As the ninth president of Pomona College, serving from 2003 to 2017, he has been recognized as a leader in American higher education, at the forefront in advancing environmental sustainability, increasing college access, cultivating creativity, and pursuing academic excellence in the context of an interdisciplinary liberal arts environment. Previously he served as Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. Dr. Oxtoby has been the recipient of several fellowships, including from the Guggenheim and National Science Foundations. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Chemical Society. He was an Overseer of Harvard University from 2008 to 2014 and is a member of the Ojai Music Festival Board. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Oxtoby received honorary degrees from Occidental College (2005) and Lingnan University in Hong Kong (2009). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group. He served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments before becoming the Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Carter administration. He also practiced law in both New York City and Washington, D.C. He is Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and President of the Economic Club of Washington, among other board seats and memberships. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge, and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award, among other philanthropic awards. He is the host of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and serves as a member of the Academy’s Board of Directors. #AcademyInduction