Joseph Cari, Jr.

Joseph A. Cari (born 8 October 1952) is a private equity investor, public policy expert, and philanthropist resides in New York, New York and Castellina in Chianti, Italy.

Joseph A. Cari Jr's professional career has spanned the worlds of merchant banking, media, public policy, politics, law and education. Cari is Chairman of Castellini Partners (a family office), which focus on investments in healthcare, media, financial services, alternative energy & technology.

Among those companies are: Healthpoint Capital Partners, Amana Creative, Paradigm Spine, Healthpoint Capital and Medcapital Partners. Cari has participated in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and has been published on foreign policy issues by various publications including The Financial Times, Beirut Daily News, New York Times, Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York). Cari serves on the Advisory Boards of One Medical Place LLC and MedCapital Partners. He sits on the Advisory Boards of The World Policy Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles). Cari lectures on foreign policy and US Presidential Politics at the Lebanese American University (Beirut, Lebanon), Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles) and Villanova University (Philadelphia, PA).

Cari was appointed by U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton to serve as Chairman of the Board of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; a federally funded institute whose mission intersects the worlds of education, public policy and politics. The Wilson Center works with various U.S. Federal Departments, such as State, Education and Commerce to provide insights on international issues from a social, religious, economic and political viewpoint. Chairman Cari played a key role in recruiting the Honorable Lee Hamilton as the Director of the Center and supported Congressman Hamilton's appointment to Co-Chair the 9/11 Commission with former Secretary of State, James Baker. Cari was widely recognized for leading a Bi-Partisan Board, increasing funding for the Center and having strong working relationship with a Republican controlled Congress. Cari is the son of Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Cari of Evergreen Park, Illinois. Dr. Cari was Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Chicago and served on the faculty at the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago. Dr. Cari was also the author of the text "The Delivery of Emergency Care" which is listed on Amazon.com. Mrs. Cari served as Chairwoman of the Woman's Board of Mercy Hospital and was a homemaker and mother of five.

Cari graduated from Brother Rice Preparatory HS (with honors) in Chicago, IL and received his B.A. (cum laude) and J.D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame. He was awarded and completed a Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Joseph is a widower and has a daughter, Nicole Elizabeth.