Gerald M. Rosberg is vice president - planning and development of The Washington Post Company. He joined the company in 1996. In addition to his corporate responsibilities he is also a senior vice president of Kaplan Inc.
Prior to joining The Washington Post Company Rosberg was with Computer Associates International Inc. a computer software company headquartered in Islandia NY where he was senior vice president and general counsel and then senior vice president - business development. Before joining CA Rosberg was for ten years a partner in the Washington office of Dewey Ballantine a New York law firm where he specialized in litigation and federal regulatory matters.
From 1974 to 1982 Rosberg was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School first as an assistant professor and later associate professor and then full professor. On leave of absence from the University of Michigan Rosberg served in 1980-1981 as Counselor on International Law in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. There he helped establish the U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal that has adjudicated claims between Iran and the United States under the settlement that freed the U.S. Embassy hostages. At the completion of his State Department appointment Rosberg remained in Washington DC first at the law firm of Califano Ross & Heineman and then beginning in January 1983 as a partner at Dewey Ballantine. He has also taught law at Georgetown University Law Center where he was Distinguished Visitor from Practice in 1986-1987 and at the University of Texas Law School in the summer of 1978.
Rosberg graduated in 1968 from Harvard College where he was assistant managing editor of The Harvard Crimson and then attended Harvard Law School where he was Supreme Court Note Editor of The Harvard Law Review. Following his 1971 law school graduation he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then as a clerk to Mr. Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.
Rosberg is chairman of the board of BrassRing Inc. a talent management company headquartered in Waltham MA and serves on the board of Classified Ventures in Chicago IL. He is also a member of the board of trustees of The Studio Theatre in Washington DC. |