Malin Burnham
Malin Burnham is an American sailor who, at the age of 17, won the Star World Championships in 1944 and 1945. He was involved in Dennis Conner's 1987 and 1988 Stars & Stripes America's Cup campaigns and named to the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2002. Burnham was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2016. He has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Burnham has been an active real estate developer in the San Diego area since the 1940s; his family real estate brokerage firm, Burnham Real Estate Services, was founded in 1891 and was acquired by Cushman & Wakefield in 2008. He is also known for his extensive charitable activities in San Diego. The Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute is partially named in his honor for his gift in 1996.
Beginning in 2014 he led a group of San Diegans seeking to acquire the U-T San Diego newspaper from Doug Manchester and run it as a nonprofit entity.
He is a board member to Katerva, called by as the Nobel Prize for Sustainability.
