Andrew Klaber
Andrew Klaber is the president and founder of Orphans Against AIDS, an international non-profit organization that provides more than 600 children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS with academic scholarships, basic health care, and nutrition. He is also an investment professional at Paulson & Company, a multi-strategy hedge fund in New York.
Originally from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Klaber attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School and graduated summa cum laude from Yale College, earned Masters of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, and holds a JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Distinction. In college he rowed on the Yale lightweight crew (2002 national champions), served as Yale Phi Beta Kappa president, and was elected to Skull and Bones. Andrew was selected as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader, a Truman Scholar, a Udall Scholar, an Asia Society Young Leader, and a First-Team USA-Today Academic All-American.
Klaber was invited to the White House to receive the President's Environmental Youth Award, served with the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Orphaned and Vulnerable Children, and was selected to speak about Orphans Against AIDS at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He has run in the Berlin, Boston, London, New York, Paris, and Valencia 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 lives in New York City and serves or has served on the boards of several organizations, including the Yale Alumni Fund, the Harvard Law School Overseers’ Committee, the Echoing Green Social Investment Council (Vice Chair), the Association of Marshall Scholars (Secretary of the Board), the New York Needs You Young Leadership Board, the Truman Scholars Association, and the Russell Trust Association.
External links
- Orphans Against AIDS Officers & Board
- New York Times, Nick Kristof: The Age of Ambition
- Yale Student Andrew Klaber Wins Marshall Scholarship for Study at Oxford
- Activist-athlete Klaber receives Marshall
- List of 2004 Marshall Scholars
- USA Today honors Klaber '04
- Yale Rower Receives Prestigious Truman Scholarship
- Yale Juniors honored for 'good labor in the world'
- Yale Senior Andrew Klaber Honored For Moral Character
- Top Academic Prizes Awarded to Six Yale Seniors
- Eight HBS Students Honored for Service to the School and Society
- Harvard Law School Student Spotlight: A Young Entrepreneur Builds A StartUp to Aid the Neediest
- Harvard Law School Student Spotlight: Andrew Klaber Joins Gathering of Asia-Pacific Young Leaders in Tokyo
- Klaber Elected Harvard University Galbraith Scholar
- Notable Adlai E. Stevenson High School Alumni