Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein
is a financier and science philanthropist. He is the Chairman and CEO of
the
Financial Trust Company and the founder of the
Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation.
Jeffrey is a former member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council
on Foreign Relations, the New York Academy of Science, and a former
Rockefeller University board member. He is actively involved in
the Santa Fe Institute, the Theoretical Biology Initiative at the
Institute for Advanced Study, the Quantum Gravity Program at the
University of Pennsylvania, and once sat on the Mind, Brain, and
Behavior
Advisory Committee at Harvard University. He is also a member
of the Edge Foundation.
Jeffrey established the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation in 2000 to
support cutting edge science and medical research around the world. In
2003, the foundation established the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
at Harvard University with a $35 million gift. The Program is directed
by Martin Nowak, Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Harvard. The
Program studies the evolution of micro-biology through the lense of
mathematics. Since its establishment, the Program has made pivotal
advances in the treatment of cancer, HIV, and numerous infectious
diseases.
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation is based out of St. Thomas in the US
Virgin Islands and plays an increasingly active role in supporting youth
and early education programs across the US Virgin Islands and the United
States.
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