Robert A. Levinson

Robert A. Levinson served as Chairman of the Board of Andrex Industries Corporation, a company engaged in textile manufacturing and processing, from April 1979 to May 1995. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Levcor International, a public company engaged in several industry segments, since June of 1989. From November of 1979 to July of 1986, he was President of Dillon Yarn Corporation, a texturizer of polyester filament yarn. From 1977 to December of 1987, Mr. Levinson was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sheldon Petroleum.

Levinson was a member of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Museum from 1968 to 1994, where he served as Chairman from 1972 to 1984. Mr. Levinson is a former Chairman and member of the Advisory Board of The National Dance Institute, Chairman Emeritus and member of the Board of The Harlem School of the Art, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and is on the Advisory Committee of the Center for U.S.-China Arts Exchange at Columbia University.

Mr. Levinson is also on the Board of Overseers of the Hood Museum and Hopkins Performing Arts Center at Dartmouth, and a member of the New York-Beijing Sister City Advisory Committee and also serves as Chairman, President and CEO of Carlyle Industries, Inc., a publicly-owned manufacturer of threads, buttons, crafts, and gifts. He is also a member of the Advisory Board at the World Policy Insitute at the New School and the Board of the National Academy of Design Museum and School.

Mr. Levinson graduated from Dartmouth with an A.B. degree in February of 1946 and received an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth in September of the same year. He attended the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he did additional graduate work.