
David Goldman
Founder and Chair, Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
2025
David Goldman is the founder and Chairman of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study
of Professional Ethics (FASPE). FASPE promotes ethical leadership within the professions.
Towards such end, FASPE’s provides graduate students in professional schools and early
career professionals with fellowships to study professional ethics, responsibility and
leadership against the backdrop of the actions and choices of their professional
counterparts in Nazi Germany. These Fellowships now focus on Business, the Clergy,
Journalism, Law and Medicine.
David, now retired, was a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He
served as the head of the firm’s International Corporate Advisory Practice Group until
2016 and as head of the firm’s New York office until 2017. David was recognized by The
Legal 500 as a leader in his field and was selected by The American Lawyer as a
Dealmaker of the Year in 2011.
David is now a partner in Rosemark Capital Group, an investment firm focusing on
investments and operations in the field of digital marketing.
David has served on the board of a number of for-profit and non-profit organizations. He
was chairman of the Auschwitz Jewish Center and serves on the Board of the American
Friends of the Polin Museum. He was formerly on the Board of Directors of the Yale Law
School Fund.
David is a graduate of Washington University (BA) and Yale Law School (JD). He lives in
Princeton, New Jersey.

This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
