Billionaire Ken Griffin has given $300 million to Harvard University, his biggest gift ever to his alma mater.
The founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities has now donated more than $500 million to the Ivy League school. In recognition of that support, the university will soon grant its master’s and PhD degrees from the newly renamed Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, according to a statement Tuesday.
“We’re going to solve many of the problems the world faces today with intellectual capital and financial resources, and intellectual capital is what Harvard is all about,” Griffin said in an interview. He ticked off Harvard professors he follows, from Larry Summers on the economy to Thomas Kane on learning loss to Michael Sandel on the intersection of philosophy and markets.
