title: Richard E. Salomon
text: # Richard E. Salomon
  
  Richard E. Salomon is an American investment banker and philanthropist. He served as a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2003 to 2013 and again from 2014 to 2017.
  
  ## Biography
  
  He graduated with a BA from Yale University in 1964 and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1967. From 1982 to 2000, he was a managing director to the investment firm Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell. He was then the director of Mecox Ventures, another investment firm. He has advised the Rockefeller family.
  
  He is a managing partner of East End Advisors, LLC, chairman of the advisory board of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management Group, and a director of Boston Properties.
  
  He is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The New York Public Library. He is the vice-chairman of the board of trustees of Rockefeller University and a board member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. In 1984, Salomon was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.
  
  