Robert Rosenkranz is a financier and a philanthropist. He is also the founder and chairman of Intelligence Squared US, an initiative primarily funded by the Rosenkranz Foundation, a public policy debate series that provides a forum for public discourse. In the more than 155 debates Robert has presented, he is keen to discuss the arguments on both sides of our public policy issues of the day.Robert was previously a tax lawyer and an economist with The RAND Corporation, where he worked on national security research with a special focus on foreign policy crisis management. He is currently chairman of insurance company Delphi Capital Management, and the founder of a group of investment and private equity partnerships.