Theodore Roosevelt IV

Theodore Roosevelt IV
Roosevelt at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2012
Born	(1942-10-27) October 27, 1942 Jacksonville, Florida
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Harvard, A.B. 1965, M.B.A. 1972
Occupation	Investment banker, conservationist
Employer	Barclays
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Constance Lane Rogers (m. 1970—present)
Children	Theodore Roosevelt V
Parent(s)	Theodore Roosevelt III Anne Mason Babcock
Relatives	Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (grandfather) Eleanor Butler Alexander (grandmother) Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt III (uncle) Quentin Roosevelt II (uncle) Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (cousin) Susan Roosevelt (cousin)

Theodore Roosevelt IV (born November 27, 1942) is an investment banker and managing director at Barclays Capital Corporation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and the Foreign Policy Association. Roosevelt is also a prominent conservationist. He and his wife Constance Lane Rogers are the parents of businessman Theodore Roosevelt V (born c. 1976).

Roosevelt is a great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Early years

Roosevelt earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1965.

After college, he was commissioned on as an ensign in the Naval Reserve on June 16, 1965, and he served as a U.S. Navy officer with Underwater Demolition Team 11 (BUD/S Class 36). After completing BUDS he served for two years in Vietnam with the Navy SEALs. He remained in the Naval Reserve after leaving active duty and was promoted to lieutenant commander on April 1, 1974.

He then served in the U.S. State Department as a foreign service officer in Washington, D.C. and the Upper Volta. He later earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a member of the HBS Rugby Club.

Public service

Roosevelt is Chair of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a Trustee of the Alliance for Climate Protection, a member of the Governing Council of the The Wilderness Society (United States), and a Trustee for the American Museum of Natural History, the World Resources Institute, and The Cultural Institutions Retirement System. He is also a Counselor for the China–U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. He is on the Board of Advisors of the cross-partisan grassroots campaign Represent.Us, where he served as a consultant in the crafting of the American Anti-Corruption Act.

At the Republican Convention in 2000, Roosevelt gave the speech on the environment. He gave the keynote speech at the National Governors Association Annual Meeting in 2001 as well as the keynote address at the Governors Conference on Climate Change in April 2008 sponsored by Yale University. Most recently, he spoke at the Conference of Parties Climate Summit in December 2009 in Copenhagen sponsored by the European Union Parliament. He was an early supporter of Jon Huntsman, Jr.'s 2012 Presidential bid.