| Net Worth | $14 Million |
| Ex-Wife | Christiane Amanpour |
James Rubin Bio
James Phillip Rubin is a notable American former diplomat and journalist. From 1997 to 2000, he was the United States’ Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under the Clinton presidency. He is currently the recently elected Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Diplomatic Counselor. He published a regular column on global affairs for The Sunday Times of London.
Following his tenure in the State Department under President Bill Clinton, Rubin went on to broadcast World News Tonight, a program on Sky News. His tenure on the show was brief, and upon its cancellation, he joined the station as a pundit. He was named Special Envoy and Coordinator of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center in December 2022.
James Rubin Ex-Wife
Rubin the US State Department spokesman at the time, got married to CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour in 1998. They relocated to London, England and then in 2010 they came back to New York City, renting an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
In 2013, he returned to London permanently with his wife and their son, Darius John Rubin, who was born in 2000. In July of 2018, it was revealed that Amanpour and Rubin were divorcing.
James Rubin Net Worth 2024
James has an estimated net worth of $14 Million. His versatility across all of the industries he has worked in has contributed to his wealth accumulation. It is projected that as his career progresses, his net worth will rise.
| Year | Net Worth |
| 2023 | $13.5 Million |
| 2024 | $14 Million |
| 2025 | $14.6 Million |
| 2026 | $15 Million |
James Rubin Age
James Phillip Rubin was born on March 28, 1960 in Larchmont, New York, U.S. As of 2024 he is 64 years old.
James Rubin Parents
Rubin grew up in the Westchester County, New York, community of Larchmont after being born into a Jewish family in New York City. He is the son of publisher and Pindar Press President Harvey Rubin and his wife Judith who taught psychology to students. Elizabeth Rubin, his sister, works as a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and is an Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
James Rubin Education
After attending Mamaroneck and Phillips Exeter High Schools and graduating in 1977, Rubin went on to study at Columbia College at Columbia University, where he earned a political science BA in 1982 and a Master of International Affairs (MIA) from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs in 1984.
Zalmay Khalilzad, who subsequently served as President George W. Bush’s US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the UN, was Rubin’s professor at Columbia. In Massachusetts, Rubin also studied at Boston University.
James Rubin Career
Rubin began his career with the Arms Control Association as the Assistant Director of Research, under the Clinton administration’s continued supervision. He served as the State Department’s chief spokesman and public affairs officer for around three years while an Assistant Secretary. He was considered Secretary Madeleine Albright’s right hand man throughout her tenure in the Clinton administration.
After leaving the ministry, Rubin and his family relocated to London. He started off at the London School of Economics as a visiting professor of international relations. In addition, he began hosting the PBS weekly international affairs show Wide Angle for the first time.
After returning to the nation, he worked as the lead foreign policy spokesperson for General Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign; nevertheless, Clark eventually withdrew from the 2004 Presidential Primaries. After that, he worked in national security affairs as a senior counselor, where he rapidly became well-known.
In October 2005, he relocated to London, where he served as Sky News’ chief news presenter for World News Tonight until July 2006. Following that, he went back home and got involved in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, putting forth a lot of effort to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2008.
Since joining Bloomberg News in December 2010, he has been in charge of editorial affairs in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Mexico, Central and South America, and Europe. He left his job after a period of ten months and joined Columbia University as an adjunct professor. He is the commissioner of the Port Authority in 2011.
On May 29, 2013, he stated that all of his family members would be relocating to London to work on different projects. That same day, he resigned from all of his US-based posts.
