| 1 | Name: | Dr. Harold Tafler Shapiro | |
| Institution: | Princeton University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1990 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1935 | ||
Harold T. Shapiro served as Princeton University's 18th president. Elected at a special Board of Trustees meeting on April 27, 1987, he was installed on January 8, 1988, and served in that capacity until June 2001. In 2009 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study. Shapiro, who received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1964, held a faculty appointment as a professor of economics and public affairs, becoming emeritus in 2023. He came to Princeton from the University of Michigan, where he served on the faculty for twenty-four years as professor of economics and public policy and as president from 1980-1988. A trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, he also serves as director of the Hastings Center, DeVry, Inc., Reading is Fundamental, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, the Merck Vaccine Advisory Board, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the Princeton Healthcare System, and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey Joint Board Managers. He is also a Governor of the American Jewish Committee. He served as chair of the National Academy of Science's Committee on American's Energy Future. He served as chair of the National Academy of Science's Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institute of Health from July 2002-July 2003. Harold Shapiro is the author of "A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society (2005) and editor of "Universities and Their Leadership" (with William G. Bowen,1988) and "Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects" (with James F. Childress and Eric M. Meslin, 2005). He is a recipient of the Lt. Governor's Medal in Commerce from McGill University (1956), the William D. Carey Lectureship Award in Leadership in Science Policy (2006), and the National Academy of Science's Public Welfare Medal (2012). | |||