Robert Rosenkranz

In April 2010, Rosenkranz was honored by the Manhattan Institute with their annual Alexander Hamilton Award, which he received in recognition of his founding of the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate series.

In late 2009, Yale University dedicated its new building, Rosenkranz Hall, in recognition of Rosenkranz's philanthropic work. Rosenkranz Hall is home to Yale's social sciences and international studies departments.

Rosenkranz founded Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates in 2006, a live debate series with the goal of raising the level of public discourse and promoting a realization that, on contentious issues, those who challenge the conventional wisdom have intellectually respectable and often persuasive viewpoints. Through an annual series of between 10 and 12 live Oxford-style debates, IQ2US brings together thought-leaders and audiences together around public policy and cultural issues. The program has been the subject of articles in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications.

In 1985, Rosenkranz founded the Rosenkranz Foundation with the mission of encouraging fresh perspectives and innovation in public policy, higher education and the arts. One initiative of the foundation is the debate series Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates, established in New York City in 2006. A live event in New York, Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates is broadcast nationally by National Public Radio and televised by Bloomberg TV.

Robert Rosenkranz (born August 5, 1942) is an American philanthropist and the chairman of Delphi Capital Management, an investment concern with over $35 billion in assets under management, and the founder of a group of investment and private equity partnerships. From 1987 until 2018 he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Delphi Financial Group, an insurance company with more than $20 billion in assets. Delphi grew from one of his acquisitions and increased its value 100-fold under his leadership.

Rosenkranz lives in East Hampton. He has two children from a marriage to Margret Hill (June 20, 1940 - September 27, 2018) which ended in divorce: Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz and Stephanie Rosenkranz Hessler, both constitutional law scholars. Since June 29, 2002 he has been married to Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim Museum. He is Jewish., but his second marriage was officiated at a Presbyterian church.