Bruce Kovner
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Juilliard School

Bruce Kovner is founder and Chairman of Caxton Corporation, a trading company, and manager of hedge funds active in currency, interest rate, petroleum, commodity, and equity markets. Formerly, he was Senior Vice President of Commodities Corporation, an international commodities trading firm.

Mr. Kovner was born in New York City and attended public schools in New York and Los Angeles. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1966 and continued his studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government until 1970.

From 1970 to 1976, Mr. Kovner did consulting work for the United States Congress, the National Science Foundation, the Council of Environmental Advisors for the State of New York, and the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, where he lectured on city politics and public policy problems. During this time he published articles in Public Interest, Commentary, and New York on public policy, music, and other subjects. In 1977 he joined Commodities Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey, as a vice president, leaving in 1983 to form Caxton Corporation.

Mr. Kovner is founder and Chairman of the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, which provides scholarships to low-income students from New York City to attend primary schools of their choice. In addition to Juilliard, he also is a member of the boards of the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the Philharmonic-Society of New York, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

Mr. Kovner and his family divide their time between homes in Manhattan and Dutchess County, New York.

According to President Joseph W. Polisi, "Juilliard is extraordinarily fortunate to have Bruce Kovner's leadership as the School addresses our future challenges. As Chairman of The Campaign for Juilliard, Bruce has been instrumental in developing strategies that directly impact the most important elements of the institution: our students and faculty, and our artistic and educational programs. His vision for the School insures that Juilliard will continue its tradition of excellence into the new millennium."