Awards & Recognition
★Outstanding Young Man award from Encino Junior Chamber of Commerce
★Friend of Education Award from National Association of State Boards of Education
★Presidential pardon from President Trump in 2020
★Joseph Wharton fellow at Wharton School
★Phi Beta Kappa member at UC Berkeley
★George Washington University School of Public Health renamed after him
★Ig Nobel Economics Prize (1991)
Notable Facts
→Chairman of Milken Institute, a major economic think tank with global conferences
→Co-founder of Milken Family Foundation with $140M+ in funding
→Founded Prostate Cancer Foundation, world's largest philanthropic funder of prostate cancer research
→Net worth of $6 billion as of 2022
→Former 'Junk Bond King' who revolutionized capital markets in the 1980s
→Opened Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington D.C. in 2025
→Convicted and pardoned for securities law violations
→Has donated hundreds of millions to medical research and education