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:
Flavia B. de Almeida (2011-2017)
São Paulo, Brazil
Partner, The Monitor Group
Photeine Anagnostopoulos (2009-2015)
New York, NY
Chief Executive for Finance and Administrative Operations, Newark Public School District
Joshua Boger (2009-2012)
Concord, MA
Founder and CEO (retired), Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
Lynn Wan-Hsin Chang (2008-2014)
Newton, MA
Concert violinist, violin professor
Morgan Chu (2009-2015)
Los Angeles, CA
Partner, Irell & Manella LLP
Walter Clair (2009-2015)
Nashville, TN
Medical Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Ronald Cohen (2007-2013)
London, England
Chairman, The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures, and Director of Social Finance Inc.
Cheryl Dorsey (2010-2016)
New York, NY
President, Echoing Green
Sandra M. Faber (2006-2012)
Santa Cruz, CA
University Professor and Astronomer, University of California Observatories,
and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Anne Fadiman (2008-2014)
New Haven, CT
Author; Francis Writer-in-Residence, Yale University
Leila Fawaz (2006-2012)
Medford, MA
Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies and Director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Professor of History, and Professor of Diplomacy in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Paul J. Finnegan (2008-2014)
Chicago, IL
Co-CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners
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
Nicholas D. Kristof (2010-2016)
New York, NY
Columnist, The New York Times
Richard A. Meserve (2007-2013)
Washington, DC
President, Carnegie Institution for Science
Karen Nelson Moore (2010-2016)
Cleveland, OH
U.S. Circuit 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
Nicole M. Parent (2011-2017)
Greenwich, CT
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Vertical Research Partners, LLC
Emily Rauh Pulitzer (2006-2012)
St. Louis, MO
Founder and Chair, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Cristián Samper (2009-2015)
Washington, DC
Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Richard R. Schrock (2007-2013)
Cambridge, MA
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry, MIT
Robert N. Shapiro (2006-2012)
Boston, MA
Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
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