Richard Hurowitz is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. He is a writer, investor, and the publisher of the Octavian Report, a magazine focused on geopolitics, economics, and culture. He is also the chief executive officer of Octavian & Company, an investment boutique.

Hurowitz’s book on Holocaust rescuers, In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust, was published by HarperCollins and nominated for the Wingate Prize. His writing on geopolitics, trade, finance, and history has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, the Daily Beast, the Boston Globe, USA Today, CNBC, the Weekly Standard, History Today, and the Jerusalem Post.

Previously, Hurowitz was the founder and chief investment officer of Octavian Advisors, an international special situations and distressed investment fund with offices in New York, London, Luxembourg, Auckland, and Kampala. The fund was named one of the top large global hedge funds by Bloomberg and invested in more than fifty countries across five continents. Prior to founding Octavian, Hurowitz was a partner at Halcyon Asset Management, a multibillion-dollar investment fund.

Hurowitz served as a member of the board of directors of EI Towers, an Italian broadcast towers company; Head, an Austrian sporting goods business; and Octavian Maritime, a cargo shipping company, where he was chairman. He has also served as strategic advisor to Rothschild & Company, strategic advisor to Electrum Holdings, a member of the advisory board of Hyperion Funds, and a special advisor to Sixth Street Partners.

Hurowitz serves on the governing board of the Yale University Art Gallery and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 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 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.