The current scion of the Rockefeller family plus a prominent American statesperson, globalist & banker David Rockefeller Sr. , is the founder, honorary chairman & lifetime trustee of the Trilateral Commission and the chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank. He was born on 12th June, 1915 at New York City, New York, United States. David is the only surviving child of major philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. & Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and grandchild of billionaire Standard Oil industrialist, John D. Rockefeller. David had sister Abby and brothers John D. III, Nelson, Laurance & Winthrop who all are dead now. David’s net worth is expected to be $ 2.9 billion according to Forbes.

David spent much time in his childhood at the vast estate of Pocantico where the Admiral Richard Byrd , General George C. Marshall & the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh were regular visitors. He spent his summer vacations at the vast 100-room mansion Eyrie in Seal Harbor on southeastern shore of Mount Desert Island in Maine, U.S.A.

Rockefeller attended the Lincoln School, at 123rd Street, in Harlem which was operated by the Columbia University's Teachers College. Later, in 1936, David graduated in English history & literature from Harvard University.He attended his economics postgraduation first year at Harvard and then the second year at the London School of Economics where David met John F. Kennedy & his sister Kathleen and dated her briefly. In 1940 David completed his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago which was established by his family in 1889. David’s doctoral thesis "Unused Resources and Economic Waste" was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1941.

From 1940 to 1941, among 60 "interns" in New York City, Rockefeller worked for 18 months without salary in order to gain experience in government. David was the secretary of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and later became an assistant regional director of the New York State’s U.S. Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services. In 1942, David entered the U.S. Army, after American involvement into World War II. In 1943 Rockefeller joined the Engineer Corps Officers Training School and there he received military intelligence training. David served both in North Africa & France and left the Army as captain in 1945. Rockefeller was awarded the French Legion of Honor, the Italian Order of Merit & the U.S. Legion of Honor.

In 1946, Rockefeller was the first & only banker of his family when he joined the Chase National Bank, his family associated bank. The chairman of the bank was his maternal uncle Winthrop Aldrich who was U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich’s son. In 1955, Chase National Bank was later renamed Chase Manhattan Bank now known as JPMorgan Chase.

David served as a director in the Council on Foreign Relations in 1949. Earlier he had also served as the secretary of the CFR Study Group in the Council's discussion on "Reconstruction in Western Europe" in 1946-47 which was named the Marshall Plan.

In 1951 Rockefeller was senior vice president and took the responsibility of the economic research department and customer relations in the New York City area. In 1955, David was executive vice president having responsibility of the development department of bank. In 1956 Rockefeller became the chairman of the New York Chamber of Commerce Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment. In 1957 Rockefeller was made vice chairman with responsibility of overall planning and administration of the Chase National Bank. David also served in the bank’s subsidiary foreign financing Chase International Investment Corporation’s vice president.

Rockefeller has also achieved honorary degrees from different universities and in 1994 was given the Hadrian Award of the World Mathematics Fund.

Rockefeller's interest lies in entomology .He also loves sailing on his private yatch which he learnt from lawyer John J. McCloy. David has the possession of a famous rotating file device Rolodex in his office Room 5600, which was started in 1940 to store at least 150000 contact entries of important people of the world.

On 7th September 1940 David married Margaret "Peggy" McGrath and they had 6 children: David, Abby, Neva, Peggy Dulany, Richard, and Eileen. Rockefeller primarly lives at "Hudson Pines" on his family estate in Westchester County but also possesses a residence at East 65th Street in Manhattan and a country residence "Four Winds" at Livingston in New York where David’s wife raised beef cattle of Simmenthal. David also maintains a summer home on Mount Desert Island off the Maine coast.