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DATE: December 19, 2016

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RONALD S. LAUDER JOINS J. PAUL GETTY TRUST BOARD

LOS ANGELES - The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that Ronald
S. Lauder has joined the Gettys Board effective immediately.
We are thrilled to welcome Ronald Lauder to the Getty Board of Trustees, said Maria
Hummer-Tuttle, chair. He brings great knowledge and experience in art history and
scholarship, collecting, museum management, philanthropy, and international affairs."
A renowned art collector, Mr. Lauder has established one of the worlds greatest private
collections. He was chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 1995 to 2005 and now
serves as the museums honorary chairman. In 2001, he established the Neue Galerie New
York, of which he is president. Mr. Lauder established the Commission for Art Recovery in
1997, which advocates and fights for the recovery of Nazi looted art.

His lifelong involvement with the arts, combined with his business and financial acumen, will
make him a tremendously valuable member of our leadership, said James Cuno, president
and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He joins other Board members with international
expertise, helping broaden the Gettys reach internationally.
Mr. Lauder has served as Chairman of Clinique Laboratories since 1994 and was a member of
The Este Lauder Companies Board of Directors from 1968 to 1986 and 1988 to 2009. He
was re-elected to this Board in November 2016.
In 1983, Mr. Lauder took a leave from The Este Lauder Companies to serve in the U.S.
Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. In 1986,
he was appointed ambassador to Austria by President Ronald Reagan.
Upon his return from Vienna in 1987, he established the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, which
now has 35 Jewish schools, kindergartens and summer camps throughout 15 countries in
Eastern Europe. Mr. Lauder also created an International Student Exchange Program between
Jewish high school students in New York and Vienna.
In June 2007, Mr. Lauder was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress, and has served as
the organizations president ever since. In February of 1999, Mr. Lauder was elected chairman
of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He also serves as
chairman of the Jewish National Fund.
Mr. Lauder also serves as chairman of the International Public Committee of the World Jewish
Restitution Organization; chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Committee;
chairman of the Jewish Heritage Council; chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sakharov
Archives at Brandeis University; director of the International Board of Governors of the
International Society for Yad Vashem; and is a member of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, the Board of Directors of the Jewish Theological Seminary; the Board of
Directors of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; the Board of Trustees of the
Anti-Defamation League Foundation; the International Auschwitz Council; and the
International Board of Governors of the Tel Aviv Museum.
Mr. Lauder is the founder and chairman of the New York-based Water Holding Group RWL
Water, LLC, an international water company. He is also chairman of the Board of Governors of
the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania. In 1998, Mr. Lauder co-founded the Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation
together with his brother, Leonard A. Lauder.
Among his honors, Mr. Lauder received the International Emmy Directorate Award by the
International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2006. He received, together with his
wife, Jo Carole Lauder, the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2011 and in 2013, Mr.
Lauder was named an Officier de la Lgion dHonneur by President Hollande of France. He
was decorated with Germanys highest honor, the Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit,
in 2015 and was awarded the Guardian of Zion prize by the Ingeborg Rennert Center for
Jerusalem Studies at Bar Ilan University in 2016. Mr. Lauder also received honorary doctoral
degrees from Ben Gurion University in 2009 and from Yeshiva University in 2011.

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Mr. Lauder was born on February 26, 1944. He graduated from the Bronx High School of
Science in New York and holds a Bachelors degree in International Business from The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Paris and
received a Certificate in International Business from the University of Brussels. Mr. Lauder
married Jo Carole Knopf in July of 1967. They have two children and two grandchildren. The
family resides in New York City.
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