About

Richard Hurowitz is a writer, investor, and the publisher of The Octavian Report, the magazine of ideas. He is the chief executive officer of Octavian and Company LLC, an investment firm.

Richard’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, Time, the Daily Beast, the Boston Globe, USA Today, CNBC, the Weekly Standard, History Today and the Jerusalem Post. His book on Holocaust rescuers, In the Garden of the Righteous, was published by HarperCollins and was nominated for the Wingate Prize.

Previously, Richard was the founder and chief investment officer of Octavian Advisors, an international special situations and distressed investment fund which managed approximately $1.4 billion and which was sold to TPG, the private equity firm. The fund was named one of the top large global hedge funds by Bloomberg and successfully invested in over fifty countries on five continents. Prior to founding Octavian, Richard was a partner at Halcyon Asset Management, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of EI Towers SpA, the Italian broadcast towers company, Head NV, the Austrian sporting goods business, and of Octavian Maritime, a cargo shipping concern, where he was chairman. He also has served as a strategic advisor to Rothschild & Company, as a strategic advisor to Electrum Holdings, and as a special advisor to TPG Sixth Street Partners.

Richard serves on the governing board of the Yale University Art Gallery. He is a a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a nonresident senior fellow of the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council. He was a co-founder and president of the Renew Democracy Initiative, an organization dedicated to defending liberal democracy.  He received his BA in history from Yale University, graduating in three years, magna cum laude and with distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha Theta. He earned a JD from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the editor-in-chief of the Columbia/VLA Journal of Law & the Arts.