David Hamilton Koch

Biography

 Mr. David Hamilton Koch serves as an Executive Vice President of Koch Industries, Inc. Mr. Koch serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries. He joined Koch Industries in 1970. Mr. Koch was a Research Engineer and Process Design Engineer for Amicon Corporation, in Cambridge, Mass.; Arthur D. Little, Inc., also in Cambridge, Mass.; and Halcon International, Inc. and its affiliate Scientific Design Company Inc. in New York City. He was a long-time philanthropist and served in a variety of organizations and programs for nearly three decades. Since 2000, he contributed more than $750 million to further cancer research, enhance medical centers, support educational institutions, sustain arts and cultural institutions, and conduct public policy studies. Mr. Koch was the prime supporter of The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, which opened March 2011. He serves as the Chairman of Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation and Koch Membrane Systems Inc. He has been a Trustee of The New York and Presbyterian Hospital since 1988. He serves as a Trustee of Aspen Institute, The. He serves as a Director of Reason Foundation. Mr. Koch serves as a Director of CATO Institute, Prostate Cancer Foundation and Koch Industries, Inc. He serves on the Boards of Americans for Prosperity Foundation. His other contributions to MIT have established the Koch Biology Building and The David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice. Mr. Koch’s 2007 donation to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center created the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers. In 2006, The David H. Koch Cancer Research Center on Johns Hopkins University's East Baltimore medical campus was dedicated, honoring Mr. Koch for his $20 million commitment to the center. In 2005, Mr. Koch received a presidential appointment to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute, where he served until March 2010. He has donated $60 million to renovate the plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 2008, he committed $100 million to the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, which houses both the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera and has been renamed the David H. Koch Theater. Mr. Koch has pledged $35 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. to construct a new dinosaur hall. He gave a $15 million gift to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., created the 15,000-square-foot David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human origins. The hall opened in March 2010. In 2006, Mr. Koch gave $20 million to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to support the dinosaur exhibits, creating the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing. In 2011, Mr. Koch received the Humanitarian Award from the American Apparel & Footwear Association, and he has been recognized by The New York Academy of Medicine for his support of biomedical research, healthcare and education. His corporate leadership has been honored by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Double Helix award in 2007, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Excellence in Corporate Leadership award in 2005 and the prestigious Corporate Citizenship Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2004. His other recognition includes the Manhattan Republican Party's Business Statesman of the Year award (2002) and the Entrepreneurial Leadership Award (1994) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2001) from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Mr. Koch has been active in the public policy field. Mr. Koch has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has an Honorary Doctorate from Cambridge College, Inc. in Humane Letters. He is the Co- Owner at Koch Industries, Inc.

Research Interest

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