Richard Gilder Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography, How much money make?

The company that is currently known as Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. was established in 1968 by Gilder after he had previously worked at the brokerage firm A.G. Becker & Co. He is on the Executive Committee of the New-York Historical Society and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and he is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the New-York Historical Society. He serves on the boards of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Morgan Library & Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Central Park Conservancy, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, among other organisations. He serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, and the Club for Growth, a conservative political action organisation, both of which he founded. Gilder is the Club For Growth’s Chairman Emeritus, and his ex-wife, Virginia James, continues to be a significant contributor to the organisation. Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman were awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2005 for their contributions to the advancement of the study of American history. His own PhD programme at the American Museum of Natural History, the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the AMNH, has been established in his honour at the museum. Gilder attended Northfield Mount Hermon School before matriculating at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut.

In 1954, he received his bachelor’s degree from Yale. Yale University awarded him a Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 200In honour of his daughter, Virginia Anne, a two-time Olympian, he donated $4 million, more than half of the required funds, for the newly finished Gilder Boathouse for Yale rowers, which was dedicated in her name. The boathouse is named solely after the Gilder family, in recognition of three generations of Yale graduates. Gilder is the father of four children. Virginia Gilder (born 1958), also a Yale graduate, was a member of the American women’s quadruple sculls team that won a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and is a co-owner of the Seattle Storm, a professional women’s basketball team in the National Women’s Basketball Association (WNBA). In 2005, he tied the knot with the former model and actress Lois Chiles. Eddie Chiles, a well-known oil billionaire, was her paternal uncle.

Richard Gilder Wiki

Net Worth	$1.6 Million
Date Of Birth	1932-05-31
Profession	American businessman
Spouse	Lois Chiles
Nicknames	Richard Gilder, Gilder, Richard