Ravenel B. Curry III

He sits on the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, The Duke Endowment, the New York Hall of Science, the New-York Historical Society, the Genetics Endowment of South Carolina, the Blanton-Peale Institute (named for Norman Vincent Peale), and his alma mater, Furman University.^{[1][3][8][9][10][11]} He has previously served as President of the Furman University Alumni Board and as Chair of the New Jersey Higher Education Assistance Authority.^[12] He is a Trustee Emeritus of Success Academy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[13]

In 2004, he donated US$1 million to support the Chinese Studies program at Furman University, and, in 2023, he donated US$10 million to support the renovation of Furman University's basketball arena.^[4][2]

He and Beth Curry founded the Ravenel and Elizabeth Curry Foundation, which made major contributions to Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College and Queens University of Charlotte, N.C.^[6]

He married Elizabeth Rivers Curry (née Mary Elizabeth Rivers) (1941-2015) in 1963.^[2][6]

In 2017, Curry was awarded the Manhattan Institute's Alexander Hamilton Award.^[14]