From shy young man to private equity titan

Singapore

DAVID Rubenstein's rise from modest beginnings to one of the richest men in the world is an oft-told story.

Born in 1949 in Baltimore city in the US, he was the bookish only child of a mail sorter father and a housewife mother. He went to Duke University, then The University of Chicago Law School. Both schools were picked because they offered the biggest scholarships.