page_title: Marc S. Ellenbogen
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Marc S. Ellenbogen / Early life
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context_page_description: Marc S. Ellenbogen is an American businessman, diplomat and philanthropist, who is Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation and President of the Prague Society.
  Ellenbogen has spent nearly three decades seeking justice against former Communist officials and members of the Communist-era secret police. He is known for his efforts to fight against corruption in Central and Eastern Europe. A respected Ambassador once described Ellenbogen as "something akin to an anti-Communist Bounty Hunter".
  He has sought to honor those who stood up against communism in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Jan Zaijc, Vaclav Havel, Věra Čáslavská, Iva Drapolova and Ján Čarnogurský. Besides his work in Central and Eastern Europe, Marc Ellenbogen also rescued the daughter of former Rwandan Foreign Minister François Ngarukiyintwali to Canada after the revolution.
context_section_description: His father, Paul Ellenbogen, was, amongst other things, serving as a Navy officer in war crimes trials in Japan. The Prague Society's Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award is named after the mother of Ellenbogen. The ancestors of Ellenbogen originated from the German noble family von Katzen-Ellenbogen.
  As a teenager, Ellenbogen attended Heidelberg American High School, where he served as student body president.
  He attended Syracuse University. There, Ellenbogen served as student government comptroller and speaker, as student representative to the Board of Trustees and as president of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Later he was at Magdalen College, Oxford.
  Ellenbogen is a member of the Corps Rheno-Nicaria zu Mannheim und Heidelberg.
caption: Prof. Marc Ellenbogen shaking hands with US Secretary of State Colin Powell with Amb Martin Polous in the background
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