Opening Celebration - 2024 Induction Weekend

The Annual David M. Rubenstein Conversation was part of Induction Weekend 2024 and featured a welcome from Goodwin Liu, and a lively conversation between David M. Rubenstein and Grant Hill.

Grant Hill -- elected to the Academy in 2024 -- is a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, an Olympic gold medalist, sports commentator, and basketball executive; he is also an investor, philanthropist, and art collector. At Duke – where he double majored in history and political science – Hill was a three-time All-American and led the Blue Devils to win two NCAA championships. After graduating, Hill was drafted 3rd in the NBA draft and had a successful 19-year NBA career, largely with the Detroit Pistons. After his retirement, he continued his involvement in basketball as an analyst and as a co-owner and executive of the Atlanta Hawks. He and his wife, Canadian singer Tamia Hill, are also part owners of the Baltimore Orioles, Orlando City SC in Major League Soccer and the Orlando Pride in the National Women’s Soccer League.

Hill is the founder of Hill Ventures, a marketing company, and Penta Capital, a private equity firm. He is an active philanthropist, and is one of the world's premier collectors of African American art, including works by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Hughie Lee-Smith. Hill also founded Point Road Production company with filmmaker Bill Rafferty, and has produced two documentary films, “Starting at the Finish Line” and “Duke 91 & 92: Back to Back.” His autobiography, Game, was published in 2022. He served as the managing director of the gold medal-winning USA Basketball Men’s National Team for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. 

Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago; a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is a Baltimore native and is the Chairman and CEO of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.