[1] He is an avid philanthropist who focuses on education, Planned Parenthood, human rights and environmental causes.
degree from Princeton University, where he was president of the Ivy Club and a recipient of the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize.
He is a professor emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont where he previously served as college dean and chairman of the religion department.
In 2005, he moderated the international launch of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) (2005–14) in its headquarters in New York, launched by UNESCO and attended by Nane Annan, the wife of Secretary General Kofi Annan.
They had three children: According to a New York Times article from August 25, 1970, Rockefeller sought divorce from Anne-Marie, in Juarez, Mexico in November 1969.