# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-f-swensen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:58:01.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-f-swensen"
name: "David F. Swensen"
slug: "david-f-swensen"
description: "David Frederick Swensen was an American endowment fund manager, who was chief investment officer at Yale University from 1985 until his death in May 2021."
tagline: "American businessman (1954-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pioneering_Investor_David_Swensen_in_1997%2C_R.I.P._(51164762029).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1954-01-26"
deathDate: "2021-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.546010666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David F. Swensen"
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    title: "David F. Swensen"
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    title: "David F. Swensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Свенсен, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump