Jack Rosen is chairman of the American Jewish Congress

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. He is chief executive of a New York law firm, Rosen Partners.

Rosen has advocated for Jewish causes and received appointments by US presidents from both parties. Under US President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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, he was a presidential appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, as well as a member of the NASA Advisory Council and other roles. He was a US State Department

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 delegate to the Organization of American States

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He was later close enough to President George W Bush to receive one of the president's famous nicknames: 'Rosey'.

He is currently joint chairman of the Asia Pacific Exchange and Co-operation Foundation

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, a controversial organisation that plans to invest US$3 billion of Chinese-government

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 money in Lumbini

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, the small Nepal

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ese town where Buddha

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 was born, to create a 'Mecca' for Buddhists of all strands.

Background and family

Rosen was born in Germany

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 in a displaced persons camp. He moved with his family to the United States

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 when he was four years old, but the family returned there for several years from when he was seven. The rest of his childhood took place in The Bronx

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 neighbourhood of New York City

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, where he later attended Columbus High School

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 and later graduated from City University of New York

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with a degree in mathematics.

He is married to Phyllis, and they have two adult children, Jordan and Daniel.