Ira Drukier grew up in Rego Park, a neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
[1] His father, Charles Drukier, was a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the United States in 1948.
[3] Drukier graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1966, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
[5] Additionally, he serves as the chair of the council of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus.
[5] He has also served on the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College, which is located in New York City, since 2012.
[4] The charitable gift will be used to establish the Drukier Institute for Children's Health at the Weill Cornell Medical College as well as an annual lectureship and faculty prize.
[5] He is a past chair of the board of trustees building committee of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York.