Board of Overseers
Members of the Board of Overseers are elected by Harvard degree holders. Following are the board’s current members, with their terms of service shown in parentheses:
Scott A. Abell (2012-2018)
Boston, MA
Retired Chairman and CEO, Abell & Associates, Inc.
Flavia B. de Almeida (2011-2017)
São Paulo, Brazil
Senior Partner, The Monitor Group
Photeine Anagnostopoulos (2009-2015)
New York, NY
Former Chief Executive for Finance and Administrative Operations, Newark Public Schools Systems
Lynn Wan-Hsin Chang (2008-2014)
Newton, MA
Concert violinist, violin professor
Morgan Chu (2009-2015)
Los Angeles, CA
Partner, Irell & Manella LLP
Walter K. Clair (2009-2015)
Nashville, TN
Medical Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Ronald Cohen (2007-2013)
London, England
Chairman, The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures, Director Social Finance Inc.
Cheryl Dorsey (2010-2016)
New York, NY
President, Echoing Green
Anne Fadiman (2008-2014)
New Haven, CT
Author; Francis Writer-in-Residence, Yale University
Lucy Fisher (2007–2013)
Culver City, CA
Film Producer and Co-Head, Red Wagon Entertainment
Richard W. Fisher (2011-2017)
Dallas, TX
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Verna C. Gibbs (2011-2017)
San Francisco, CA
Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco; Director, NoThing Left Behind
Linda Greenhouse (2009-2015)
New Haven, CT
Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law, Yale University
Eve J. Higginbotham (2008–2014)
Washington, DC
Visiting Scholar for Health Equity, Association of American Medical Colleges
Walter Isaacson (2010-2016)
Washington, DC
President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
James E. Johnson (2012-2018)
New York, NY
Litigation Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
Nicholas D. Kristof (2010-2016)
New York, NY
Columnist, The New York Times
Michael M. Lynton (2012-2014)
Culver City, CA
Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment; CEO, Sony Corporation of America
Richard A. Meserve (2007-2013)
Washington, DC
President, Carnegie Institution for Science
Karen Nelson Moore (2010-2016)
Cleveland, OH
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Diana Nelson (2010-2016)
San Francisco, CA
Director, Carlson Companies
David W. Oxtoby (2008-2014)
Claremont, CA
President and Professor of Chemistry, Pomona College
Tracy P. Palandjian (2012-2018)
Boston, MA
CEO and Co-Founder, Social Finance, Inc.
Nicole M. Parent (2011-2017)
New York, NY
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Vertical Research Partners, LLC
Swati A. Piramal (2012-2018)
Mumbai, India
Vice Chairperson, Piramal Healthcare Limited
Cristián Samper (2009-2015)
New York, NY
President and CEO, Wildlife Conservation Society
Richard R. Schrock (2007-2013)
Cambridge, MA
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry, MIT
Kathryn A. Taylor (2012-2018)
Oakland, CA
CEO and Co-Chair, Board of Directors, One PacificCoast Bank
Stephanie D. Wilson (2007-2013)
Houston, TX
Astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kenji Yoshino (2011-2017)
New York, NY
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
Drew Gilpin Faust
President, Harvard University
Ex officio
James F. Rothenberg
Treasurer, Harvard University
Ex officio