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Daniel Schwartz

Daniel Schwartz is the Executive Director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Mr. Schwartz is also the founder and Chairman of the Board of Dynamica, Inc., a multi-family office serving some of the world’s leading philanthropists. He is a co-creator of Arbinet, the world’s largest telecommunications bandwidth exchange (NASDAQ: ARBX). Listed by Black Ink, the American Express Centurion cardholders’ magazine, as one the country’s most influential philanthropists, Mr. Schwartz is actively engaged in the nonprofit community and serves or has served on the boards of Synergos, the Rubin Museum of Art, A Blade of Grass, the GAVI Campaign, the Arcus Foundation, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary (Kenya), the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), the Friends of Florence Foundation, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Reboot, and Sing for Hope. He is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and of the Synergos Global Philanthropist Circle. He served as a co-chair of the Harvard College Schools Committee in NYC. A frequent speaker and author in the areas of effective global philanthropy and entrepreneurship, Schwartz has presented to audiences at The UBS Philanthropy Forum, the World Economic Forum, McKinsey & Co., the Badenweiler Symposium, and at many international YPO conferences. Mr. Schwartz received his Bachelor’s and Master&8217;s degrees from Harvard University. He was selected as one of Crain’s New York Business magazine’s “40 under 40” emerging business leaders, and was named as one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos.