President and Fellows (Harvard Corporation)
The oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere is the Harvard Corporation, known formally as the President and Fellows of Harvard College. It is the smaller of Harvard’s two governing boards; the other is the Board of Overseers. Following are the members of the Harvard Corporation.
Drew G. Faust, President
BA ’68, Bryn Mawr
MA ’71, PhD ’75, U. Pennsylvania
Drew Gilpin Faust took office as Harvard’s 28th president on July 1, 2007. A historian of the Civil War and the American South, she is also the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Previously she served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a post she took up on Jan. 1, 2001. For more, please see Office of the President.
Lawrence S. Bacow
SB ’72, MIT
JD ’76, MPP ’76, PhD ’78, Harvard
Please see article Three to Join Harvard Corporation.
Paul J. Finnegan
AB ‘75, MBA ’82, Harvard
Please see article Finnegan elected to Corporation.
Susan L. Graham
AB ’64, Harvard
MS ’66, PhD ’71, Stanford
Please see article Three to Join Harvard Corporation.
Nannerl O. Keohane
BA ’61, Wellesley
BA, MA ’63, Oxford
PhD ’67, Yale
LLD (hon.) ’93, Harvard
Past president of Duke University and of Wellesley College, Nan Keohane currently serves as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton. A political theorist with interests in leadership and inequality, she taught earlier in her career at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University, where she chaired the faculty senate. Her publications include Thinking about Leadership (2010), Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University (2006), and Philosophy and the State in France (1980), as well as essays on feminism, the history of political thought, and higher education. She joined the Harvard Corporation in July 2005, and she chairs the University’s Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees. She also chairs the board of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and is vice chair of the board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
William F. Lee
AB ’72, Harvard
MBA ’76, JD ’76, Cornell
A Boston-based intellectual property expert, Bill Lee is partner, and former co-managing partner, of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a law firm with some 1,000 lawyers and twelve offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has taught intellectual property litigation at Harvard Law School, as well as the innovative problem-solving workshop that HLS introduced in January 2010. His numerous trials have focused on such diverse matters as laser optics, secure Internet communications, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and genetically engineered food. A member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers from 2002 to 2008, he was chair of the board’s committee on finance, administration, and management. He joined the Corporation in 2010 and serves as chair of the Joint Committee on Inspection. Active in public service, he has served on numerous advisory committees to federal and state courts.
Jessica T. Mathews
AB ‘67, Harvard
PhD ‘73, Caltech
Please see article Mathews Wells elected.
Joseph J. O’Donnell
AB ’67, MBA ’71, Harvard
Please see article Three to Join Harvard Corporation.
Robert D. Reischauer
AB ’63, Harvard
MIA ’66, PhD ’71, Columbia
Bob Reischauer has served since 2000 as president of the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization in Washington, DC. From 1989 to 1995, he was director of the Congressional Budget Office. Before and after his tenure as CBO director, he was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. A member of the Institute of Medicine, he is a recognized policy expert on the federal budget, Medicare, Social Security, poverty, and welfare, and is past vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He served a six-year term on Harvard's Board of Overseers before joining the Harvard Corporation in 2002. He became the Corporation's senior fellow on July 1, 2010.
James F. Rothenberg
AB ’68, MBA ’70, Harvard
Jim Rothenberg is chairman of Capital Research and Management Company, a leading investment management firm based in Los Angeles, affiliated with the American Funds family of mutual funds. As Harvard’s Treasurer since 2004, he serves both as a member of the Harvard Corporation and as an ex officio member of the University’s Board of Overseers. He also chairs the board of directors of Harvard Management Company. Active in an array of educational, civic, and community pursuits in the Los Angeles area, he serves on the boards of the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Memorial Hospital, and is a member and past chair of the board of public television station KCET.
Robert E. Rubin
AB ’60, Harvard
LLB ’64, Yale
LLD (hon.) ’01, Harvard
Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Bob Rubin is the co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. He joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1966 and rose to become the firm’s co-senior partner and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992. From 1993 to 1995 he served in the federal government as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the first Director of the National Economic Council. He was then the nation’s 70th Treasury Secretary from 1995 to 1999. After leaving government, Mr. Rubin served as a member of the board of directors at Citigroup and as a senior advisor to the company from 1999 to 2009. He chairs the board of the community development organization known as the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and is co-founder of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project. He also serves on the board of trustees of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Theodore V. Wells Jr.
BA ’72, Holy Cross
JD ’76, MBA ‘76, Harvard
Please see article Mathews Wells elected.