Roger Hertog
US investor and philanthropist; president of the Hertog Foundation and chairman emeritus of the Tikvah Fund
| Roger Hertog
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| Image |  Hertog at the Hudson Institute, 22 September 2016 |
| Occupation | Investor and philanthropist |
| Known for | President of the Hertog Foundation; chairman emeritus of the Tikvah Fund |
| Education | City College of New York |
| Website | https://hertogfoundation.org/ |
Roger Hertog is an American investor and philanthropist. He is president of the Hertog Foundation and chairman emeritus of the Tikvah Fund.[1][2]
Career
The Hertog Foundation's official about page states that Hertog was one of the founding partners of the investment research and management firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., which he joined in 1968, and that he served as the firm's president before its merger with Alliance Capital Management in 2000. In 2006, the same page says, he retired from the successor company, AllianceBernstein, and is its vice-chairman emeritus. He is an alumnus of the City College of New York.[1]
Philanthropy and boards
Hertog is president of the Hertog Foundation, which describes itself as offering "highly competitive and selective educational programs" in the humanities, political studies, constitutional studies, and war and security studies. The foundation's about page lists offices in Washington, D.C., and New York.[1]
The Tikvah Fund's board of trustees page, retrieved on 11 November 2026, lists him as chairman emeritus. The same page, and the Hertog Foundation about page, state that he was previously chairman of the Tikvah Fund, of the New-York Historical Society and of the Manhattan Institute, and that he has served on the boards of the American Enterprise Institute, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Public Library, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.[2][1]
The foundation about page records that he was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 "in recognition of his philanthropic efforts" and the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2010, and that he received an honorary degree from Shalem College in 2017 and an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2018. Tikvah's trustees page describes the 2007 award as "the Medal of the National Endowment for the Humanities" and adds that in 2022 he received the Tikvah Fund's Herzl Prize.[1][2]