Russell Carson

{{Infobox person | name = Russell L. Carson | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Founder of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe | alma_mater = Dartmouth College (A.B.) Columbia Business School (M.B.A.) | occupation = }}

'''Russell L. Carson''' (born 1943) is a co-founder and General Partner at private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.<ref name="dart">[https://www.dartmouth.edu/~trustees/emeriti/ Dartmouth Trustee Emeritus List]</ref>

==Early life and career== Carson attended public high school in Toledo, Ohio. He then matriculated at Dartmouth College, graduating with an A.B. in economics in 1965. After Dartmouth, Carson attended Columbia Business School and obtained an MBA in 1967.<ref name="columbia">[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/05/gift2.html Columbia Business School]</ref> From 1967 to 1978, he worked at the Citicorp Venture Capital subsidiary of Citicorp, serving as its chairman and CEO from 1974 to 1978. Carson left Citicorp to fund the private equity fund Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.<ref name="dart"/>

He was a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2003 to 2016 and is currently listed as a Trustee Emeriti.<ref>{{cite web| title=Annual Report for the Year 2009–2010| publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art| date=November 9, 2010| url=http://www.metmuseum.org/~/media/Files/About/Annual%20Reports/2009_2010/2010_Annual_Report.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Russell L. Carson: Philanthropy Profile {{!}} Metropolitan Museum of Art |url=https://patronview.com/patrons/russell-l-carson |website=Patron View |access-date=23 February 2026 |language=en}}</ref> This is perhaps due to his contribution to the reinstallation of the Tombs of Perneb and Raemkai and surrounding galleries of the museum.{{Citation needed|date=February 2026}}

Carson is Chairman of ''The Carson Family Charitable Trust'', which is a private foundation that he founded in 1991 along with family members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://millstein.law.columbia.edu/people/russell-carson|title=Russell Carson|website=Columbia Law School|accessdate=26 June 2023}}</ref>

He is Chair Emeritus of the Rockefeller University’s Board of Trustees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/events-and-lectures/convocation-2019/convocation-russ-carson/|title=Russell L. Carson|website=The Rockefeller University|accessdate=26 June 2023}}</ref>

==Personal life== Carson is married to his wife Judy and together they have two children.

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