Richard L. Menschel is Senior Director of Goldman Sachs, a firm he joined in 1959. He is Director and President of the Charina Endowment Fund, a member of the Dean's Council at the Harvard School of Public Health, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and a Vice President and Trustee of the Morgan Library & Museum. He has also served as Co-Chairman of New York City's 1977 Transitional Government Search Panel, Director and Treasurer of the Fund for Public Schools, among many other positions. Menschel earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Menschel served on the first Panel for Educational Policy from 2002 through 2009.