Ruth Porat place of birth Sale
Early life and education
Porat was born to a Jewish family in Sale, Cheshire, England, the daughter of Dr. Dan and Frieda Porat. Her mother was born in Israel and her father fled Vienna on Kristallnacht and found his way to Israel, enlisted in the British Army as a teenager  and later fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Her father's testimony about surviving the Holocaust was taken by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. She has a brother, Marc Porat, who founded General Magic. Porat moved at a young age to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father was a research fellow in the physics department at Harvard University. Her father three years later relocated the family to Palo Alto, California, where he worked at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for 26 years. Porat holds a B.A. in economics and international relations from Stanford University, an M.Sc. in industrial relations from the London School of Economics, and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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