Chester E. Finn Jr.

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Person.png Chester E. Finn Jr.   SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(academic)
Born1944-08-03
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Nationality United States
Alma materPhillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University
Children • Arti
• Aloke
SpouseRenu Virmani
Member ofHoover Institution/Fellows

Chester E. Finn Jr. is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Philanthropy Roundtable.[1]

Activities

Finn is a former legislative director in the office of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[2]

Jacob Heilbrunn states that following Moynihan's election in 1976:

The initial team included Abrams, Tim Russert (now an NBC news correspondent), 'Chester Finn (an education expert closely allied with "honorary neoconservative" Diane Ravitch) and Penn Kemble -a heavy dose of neoconservatives. [3]


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References

  1. Board of Directors, Philanthropy Roundtable, accessed 6 September 2009.
  2. Board of Directors, Philanthropy Roundtable, accessed 6 September 2009.
  3. Jacob Heilbrunn, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, Doubleday, 2008, p.175.