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Daniel Shuchman

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Daniel Shuchman was a board member of FIRE from 2007-18, and Chairman of the Board from 2016-18. He has managed private and public investment funds at MSD Capital, L.P., in New York since 2002. Previously, he worked at Gotham Partners, L.P., and Goldman Sachs & Co.

Daniel is the co-founder, with Jonathan Haidt and Lenore Skenazy, of Let Grow, a nonprofit group promoting greater independence and resiliency for America’s kids. He has written on free speech and other issues for The Wall Street Journal, Reason, Forbes, Real Clear Markets, Commentary and other publications.

Daniel is a graduate of the Horace Mann School in New York and the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied history and philosophy.

He is married to Lori E. Lesser, an intellectual property attorney, and has a son and a daughter.

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