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Name

Mortimer Zuckerman

Primary Residence

New York, New York

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, McGill University | LLM, Harvard University | Master of Business Administration, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Citizenship

United States

Affiliated Companies

Boston Properties

Forbes Self Made Score

Source Of Wealth

real estate, media, Self Made

Net Worth

$2,900,000,000

Forbes Profile

https://www.forbes.com/profile/mortimer-zuckerman5

Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:

775

Forbes Philanthropy Score

Forbes List Rank One: Title

#775 Billionaires 2019

Forbes List Rank One: Link

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Forbes List Rank Two: Title

#280 Forbes 400 2018

Forbes List Rank Two: Link

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Summary

Real estate icon Mortimer Zuckerman stepped down as Boston Properties chairman in May 2016, ending nearly 5 decades running the REIT.Zuckerman became a U.S. citizen in 1977, and took Boston Properties public two decades later, in June 1997.He owns roughly 5% of the public company, which operates a diverse portfolio of primarily office space totaling nearly 50 million square feet.Zuckerman sold The NY Daily News in September 2017 after owning it for 24 years. He is still editor-in-chief and owner of U.S. News & World Report.In October 2016, Columbia University announced the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; he pledged $200 million in 2012 to fund it.

Did you know?

The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants who settled in Montreal and sold tobacco and candy, Zuckerman founded Boston Properties in 1970.A graduate of McGill, Wharton (MBA) and Harvard (LLM), Zuckerman taught a real estate class at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and was a lecturer at Yale.

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Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Zuckerman