Vivek Ramaswamy Biography, Age, Wife, Career, Education, Campaign
Vivek Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati to Indian immigrant parents. He graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and later earned a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Vivek Ramaswamy worked as an investment partner at a hedge fund before founding a biotech company, Roivant Sciences, in 2014. He stepped down as CEO of Roivant in 2021, but remained its chairman until 2023.
In 2022, Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset Management, an investment firm that positions itself in opposition to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party’s nomination for president in the 2024 election.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Biography
Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and a candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.
Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati to Indian immigrant parents. He graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and later earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. Ramaswamy worked as an investment partner at a hedge fund before founding a biotech company, Roivant Sciences, in 2014.
He stepped down as CEO of Roivant in 2021 but remained its chairman until 2023. In 2022, Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset Management, an investment firm that positions itself in opposition to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party’s nomination for president in the 2024 election.
Ramaswamy rose to prominence in American conservative circles as an “anti-woke” activist. He started his campaign by claiming that the United States is in the middle of a “national identity crisis”, which according to him is precipitated by “new secular religions”, such as “woke-ism”, “climate-ism”, and “gender ideology”.
He is also a critic of ESG initiatives. In April 2023, Forbes estimated his net worth at $630 million; his wealth comes from biotech and financial businesses.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Age
Vivek Ramaswamy was born on August 9, 1985, which makes him 38 years old. His father, V. G. Ramaswamy, a graduate of the National Institute of Technology Calicut, worked as an engineer and patent attorney for General Electric, while his mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, a graduate of the Mysore Medical College & Research Institute worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.
His parents immigrated from Palakkad district in Kerala, where the family had an ancestral home in a traditional agraharam in the town of Vadakkencherry.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Wife
Ramaswamy is married to Apoorva Tewari, who is an assistant professor and surgeon in Ohio. The couple is also parents to two kids, Karthik and Arjun.
Apoorva T. Ramaswamy is a laryngologist who specializes in swallowing disorders and voice disorders of patients who have undergone cancer treatment. She studied at Yale, obtaining her MD before she became a resident physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia and Cornell.
She is based out of Columbus, Ohio and according to her Twitter bio, she is “passionate about eating, helping people eat, and maximizing the quality of life of cancer survivors. Apoorva is also an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Ohio State University.
The doctor also serves on the medical advisory board of the National Foundation of Swallow Disorders and on several committees for the Dysphagia Research Society, according to The Sun.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Career
In 2007, Ramaswamy and Travis May co-founded Campus Venture Network, which published a private social networking website for university students who aspired to launch a business. The company was sold in 2009 to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Ramaswamy worked at the hedge fund QVT Financial from 2007 to 2014. He was a partner and co-managed the firm’s biotech portfolio. QVT’s biotech investments under Ramaswamy included stakes in Palatin Technologies, Concert Pharmaceuticals, Pharmasset, and Martin Shkreli’s Retrophin.
In a 2023 speech and in his book Woke Inc., Ramaswamy called Shkreli both “brilliant” and a pathological liar, but criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecuting him, calling Shkreli’s fraud victimless.
Ramaswamy said that he voted for the Libertarian Party presidential nominee in 2004 but did not vote in the presidential elections in 2008, 2012, or 2016. He described himself as “apolitical” during this period. He supported Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
In November 2021, he registered to vote in Franklin County, Ohio, as “unaffiliated”, but described himself as a Republican. Ramaswamy has made political contributions to both Democrats and Republicans. From 2020 to 2023, he donated $30,000 to the Ohio Republican Party. In 2016, he donated $2,700 to the campaign of Dena Grayson, a Florida Democrat running for Congress.
Before running for president, Ramaswamy considered running in the 2022 election for U.S. Senate in Ohio.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Education
Ramaswamy attended public schools through the eighth grade. He then attended Cincinnati’s St. Xavier High School, a Catholic school affiliated with the Jesuit order, graduating in 2003. In 2007, Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in biology, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
At Harvard, he gained a reputation as a brash and confident libertarian. He was a member of the Harvard Political Union, becoming its president. He told the Harvard Crimson that he considered himself a contrarian who loved to debate.
While in college, he performed Eminem covers and libertarian-themed rap music under the stage name and alter ego Da Vek, and was an intern for the hedge fund Amaranth Advisors and the investment bank Goldman Sachs. He wrote his senior thesis on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras and earned a Bowdoin Prize.
An op-ed by Ramaswamy summarizing his thesis was published by the Boston Globe and republished in the New York Times. In a 2023 interview, he also said that he was a member of the Jewish intellectual society Shabtai in college.
In 2011, Ramaswamy was awarded a post-graduate fellowship by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. In 2013, he earned a J.D. from Yale Law School.
At that time, Ramaswamy was already wealthy from his involvement in the finance, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries; he said in 2023 that he had a net worth of around $15 million before graduating from law school.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Campaign
On February 21, 2023, he declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2024 on Tucker Carlson Tonight.[64] Ramaswamy publicly released 20 years of his individual income tax returns and called upon his rivals in the primary to do the same.[33][52] His fortune has made up the vast majority of his campaign’s fundraising.[45] From February to July 2023, Ramaswamy loaned his campaign more than $15 million; his campaign ended the second quarter of 2023 with about $9 million in cash on hand.[65] His fundraising lagged far beyond Trump’s and Ron DeSantis’s, but ahead of most of the other Republican primary candidates’.[65]
In May 2023, Ramaswamy’s campaign admitted that he had paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia biography before announcing his candidacy, but denied that it was politically motivated. Forbes reported Ramaswamy may have paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia page to appear more favorable to political conservatives before announcing his campaign by removing references to his Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans postgraduate fellowship and his involvement with the Ohio COVID-19 Response Team. Paul and Daisy Soros are respectively the elder brother and sister-in-law of businessman and social activist George Soros, who has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories among American conservatives. Ramaswamy’s campaign denied attempting to “scrub” his Wikipedia page and argued the edits were revisions of “factual distortions”.
During his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he sought to appeal to evangelical Christian right and Christian nationalist voters, an important part of the Republican base, some of whom were unwilling to support a non-Christian presidential candidate such as Ramaswamy (who is Hindu). In campaign stops and interviews, Ramaswamy has criticized secularism. He said that the U.S. was founded on “Christian values” or “Judeo-Christian values”; that he shares those values; and that he believes in one God.
While campaigning, Ramaswamy has called himself an “unapologetic American nationalist”; he has often attacked DeSantis but has avoided directly criticizing Trump.
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