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| | 181 | Name: | Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter | | | Institution: | New America Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1958 | | | | | | |
Anne-Marie Slaughter is one of the leading U.S. scholars of international law. A graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School (A.B.), Oxford (D.Phil. in international relations, 1992), and Harvard Law School (1985), she taught law at Chicago and Harvard, where she directed International Legal Studies. Exceptionally talented and accomplished, she had been serving as the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University when she was appointed Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. She returned to Princeton University where she is now Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs. In 2013 she became President and Chief Executive Officer of the New America Foundation. Her book A New World Order is one of the most influential recent studies of the emerging international system, identifying transnational networks of government officials as an aspect of global governance. She has also initiated an important long-term study of international security arrangements, The Princeton Project on National Security. Her other works include The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (2007) and "The Arab Spring and Climate Change" (2013). She was awarded the Francis Deak Prize of the American Journal of International Law in 1990 and 1994, the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award of the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership in 2003, and the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law of the University of Virginia/Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 2007. She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2002 and the American Philosophical Society in 2011. | |
| 182 | Name: | Mr. Robert Imbrie Smith | | | Institution: | Glenmede Trust Company & Pew Charitable Trusts | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | November 1, 2008 | | | | | | |
As the former president and CEO of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Glenmede Trust Company, Robert I. Smith has devoted himself to public service and to bettering the civic and ethical quality of the City of Philadelphia. A banker by trade, he ran the Joseph Pew-founded Glenmede Trust Company from 1977 until his retirement in 1986. He is currently a director of Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. and of the Haverford Trust Company. He has been a director of the Sun Company and the Rorer Pharmaceutical Company. He has served on both the board of directors and the executive committee of the Urban Affairs Partnership. His other civic involvements include leadership on the United States Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities and membership on the Trial Court Nominating Commission of Philadelphia County. Mr. Smith holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University (1957) and has been presented with honors including the Yale University Medal (1982) and the Philadelphia Human Rights Commission Award (1982). | |
| 183 | Name: | Mr. George Soros | | | Institution: | Soros Fund Management, LLC; Open Society Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
George Soros is the Founder and Chairman of the Soros Fund Management, LLC and the Founder of the Open Society Institute. At the time of the transition in central and eastern Europe from communism to their current governments in the 1980s and early 1990s he emerged as one of the leading philanthropists in the world with his support for those societies. More recently he has become a social commentator, dealing both with philosophical and economic issues. To a rare degree his life encompasses improving the world with his own money based upon his philosophical reflections. He has written a number of books, including: The Alchemy of Finance, 1988; Opening the Soviet System, 1990; Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets and in Eastern Europe, 1991; Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, 1995; The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, 1998; (with M. Notturno) Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy, 2000; Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, 2001; George Soros on Globalization, 2002; The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, 2003; The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, 2006; The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, 2008. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1998). | |
| 184 | Name: | Professor Michael I. Sovern | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | January 20, 2020 | | | | | | |
Michael Sovern was an internationally renowned legal scholar, a well-known labor arbitrator and mediator, and a prominent scholar in the fields of labor relations, employment discrimination, and conflict resolution. As dean, provost, and president of Columbia University, Dr. Sovern made notable contributions to Columbia, New York, and the nation. He became a leading spokesman for higher education in efforts to secure adequate federal funding for basic research and student aid through his published articles, speeches, and testimony before legislative committees. He spearheaded efforts to increase education opportunities for minority students. In his 13 years at Columbia, the university's endowment grew by more than a billion dollars, supporting new scholarships and fellowships, and a score of new academic centers, including the Harriman Institute, the National Center for Telecommunications Research, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. A graduate of Columbia University Law School (L.L.B., 1955), Dr. Sovern continued to serve as president emeritus and Chancellor Kent Professor of Law at Columbia, after stepping down as university president in 1993. Michael Sovern died January 20, 2020 in New York, New York at the age of 88. | |
| 185 | Name: | Dr. Joan E. Spero | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Joan E. Spero is an expert in international political economy. Her book The Politics of International Economic Relations is currently in its 7th edition and has been translated into numerous languages. From 2011-2018, Ms Spero was a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and from 2009-2010 was a Visiting Scholar at the Foundation Center. Ms Spero served as Founding President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation from its inception in 1997 until 2008. From 1993 to 1997, Ms. Spero served in the U.S. Department of State as Undersecretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, and from 1981 to 1993 held several positions at American Express Company, the last being Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Communications. Joan was Ambassador to the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs from 1980 to 1981 and an Assistant Professor at Columbia University from 1973 to 1979.
Currently, Ms. Spero is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the American Philosophical Society, the Century Association, the Council of American Ambassadors, the Council of Chief Executives and the Council on Foreign Relations where she served on the Board of Directors from 2001 to 2011. She recently concluded her tenure as a Trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and is a Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University, Amherst College, and the Brookings Institution. Ms. Spero previously served as a director of Citigroup, IBM, International Paper, ING, First Data Corporation, Delta Airlines, and Hercules. She is married to C. Michael Spero. They have two sons and four grandchildren. | |
| 186 | Name: | Dr. Patrick Spero | | | Institution: | George Washington Presidential Library
at Mount Vernon | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1978 | | | | | | |
Patrick Spero received his B.A. from James Madison University in 2000, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He held a number of public history jobs while pursuing his Ph.D., including serving has Historian at the David Library of the American Revolution. From 2009-2011, he served as the Pew Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bibliography at the American Philosophical Society Library, where he surveyed the Society’s early American manuscript collections and wrote a guide to these collections. Dr. Spero then joined the faculty of Williams College until 2015, when he returned to the Society as its Librarian. Before joining the Society, Spero organized several international conferences and directed numerous teacher workshops. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews and has published two books, Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 (W.W. Norton, 2018) and Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). He is also co-editor of The American Revolution Reborn: New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). | |
| 187 | Name: | Dr. H. Guyford Stever | | | Institution: | Carnegie Mellon University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | April 9, 2010 | | | | | | |
H. Guyford Stever received a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1941. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941 and remained until 1965, serving as professor, executive officer of the guided missiles program (1946-48), associate dean of engineering (1956-59), and head of the departments of mechanical engineering, naval architecture, and marine engineering (1961-65). He was president of Carnegie Mellon University from 1965-72 and director of the National Science Foundation from 1972-76. Dr. Stever has also served as Science Advisor to the President (1972-76), White House Science and Technology Advisor to the President, director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, chairman of the Federal Coordination Committee for Science, Engineering, and Technology (1976-77) and chairman of the Policy Division of the National Research Council. As a scientist, H. Guyford Stever contributed professionally to aeronautical and space engineering, cosmic rays, and gas dynamics. His presidency of Carnegie Mellon University was marked by significant change and growth, including the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute. As Director of the National Science Foundation, he strengthened NSF's highest priority mission as supporter of basic research. As Science Advisor to the President during the OPEC oil embargo of 1973, he rapidly increased NSF's non-fossil and renewable energy sources research; he also helped President Ford reestablish the White House science structure. Dr. Stever is a recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Department of Defense, Commander, Polish Order of Merit, Distinguished Public Service Award from NASA, National Medal of Science, and the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation. He has been a trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute since 1980. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Japan Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
| 188 | Name: | Mr. Robert B. Strassler | | | Institution: | Riverside Capital Management Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Robert B. Strassler is the Creator and Series Editor of The Landmark Editions and is President of the Riverside Capital Management Corporation. He has his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1961). He is the editor of The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, 1996; The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, 2007, translated by Andrea L. Purvis; The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika, 2009, translated by John Marincola. He is the series editor of The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, 2010, edited by James Romm, translated by Pamela Mensch; The Landmark Polybius: The Federation and Conquest of the Greek States, forthcoming 2012.
A highly successful graduate of the Harvard Business School, Robert Strassler is currently President of Riverside Capital Management Corporation. He has long been interested in Greek history and has a knowledge of the field that goes far beyond that of most amateur enthusiasts. More importantly, he has undertaken to create and fund a series of editions of the great Greek historians in English translation with ample notes and supplementary commentary. These so-called "Landmark" volumes are now legendary for providing unparalleled access to Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Arrian, and soon Polybius in English translations, of which all but the first were new and commissioned by Strassler himself. Leading scholars of classics and ancient history have provided copious annotation, together with detailed maps, illustrations, and special essays. These sumptuously produced books allow Greekless readers to study Greek historical writing much as a professional scholar would do, because the notes and essays are so rich and informative. They have proven equally valuable to scholars because they are exceptionally up-to-date in their discussions of current problems and bibliography. The concept was entirely Strassler’s, and he has played a vigorous role in the preparation of every volume in the series. As a musician and player of the viola da gamba, he has supported the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities. He is also the father of a theoretical high energy physicist and has consequently taken a lively interest in science. He has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2012. | |
| 189 | Name: | Mr. Maurice Frederick Strong | | | Institution: | United Nation's University for Peace; Peking University; Environmental Foundation, China; Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | November 28, 2015 | | | | | | |
A native of Canada, Maurice Strong grew up during the Great Depression, escaping poverty to become a successful businessman in the oil and utilities industries. He became a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan. In 1972, as director of the U.N. Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, he successfully placed global environmental issues on the international agenda for the first time, and twenty years later, in 1992 he convened the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the largest international conference in history. Attended by 110 heads of state and government, the conference resulted in the adoption of Agenda 21, securing a global consensus and political commitment at the highest level on the sustainable development required to bring global population numbers in line with the finite resources of the Earth. At the conference, Mr. Strong called on the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations to extend significant financial aid to developing countries as reparation for a century of industrial development and environmental degradation. Maurice Strong held a number of other prominent positions, including senior advisor to the president of the World Bank; director of the World Economic Forum Foundation; and president and rector of the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica where he was President of the Council. Later, Strong spent most of his time in the People's Republic of China. He was an active honorary professor at Peking University and Honorary Chairman of China's Environmental Foundation. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia. He had also presented stirring papers on the relation of poverty in developing countries to their population growth, particularly at the Symposium on Population Problems at the 1987 APS autumn meeting. Maurice Strong died November 28, 2015, at the age of 86. | |
| 190 | Name: | Ms. Jean Strouse | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Jean Strouse is an author and the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1967 and went on to work as an editorial assistant for The New York Review of Books (1967-69), as a freelance writer and editor (1969-72); as an editor at Pantheon Books (1972-75); and as a book critic for Newsweek magazine (1979-83). In 1975 she published her first book, Women & Analysis, Dialogues on Psychoanalytic Views of Femininity and followed that in 1980 with a biography of Alice James that won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. In 1999 she published another biography, Morgan: American Financier, to much praise. Ms. Strouse's essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Grand Street, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Vogue, and Newsweek. She has served as a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The Harvard Advocate; on the executive board of The Readers' Encyclopedia of American History; and on the executive council of the Authors Guild. | |
| 191 | Name: | Mr. Frank E. Taplin | | | Institution: | Environmental Defense & Metropolitan Opera Association & Institute for Advanced Study & Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | May 11, 2003 | | | | |
| 192 | Name: | Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum | | | Institution: | Spelman College | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | |
| 193 | Name: | Dr. Samuel O. Thier | | | Institution: | Harvard Medical School | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Samuel Thier, nationally-known authority on internal medicine, kidney disease, biomedical research, national health policy, and medical education, has reshaped every institution he has led. At Yale University, he raised the status of the academic medicine department chair. As president of the Institute of Medicine (1985-91), he established the institute as an objective and expert source of health policy. As president of Brandeis University (1991-94), he raised the level of intellectual ferment and reclarified the university's mission. As president and CEO of Partners HealthCare System (1997-2002), he has made perhaps his most important contribution in demonstrating that a large, fully-integrated academic health system can provide excellent clinical care while maintaining financial stability and strenghthening research and education programs. Born in New York, Dr. Thier received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Syracuse in 1960. He subsequently worked at Massachusetts General Hospital (1967-69) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (1969-71) and as vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1971-75) before joining the Yale University School of Medicine as chairman of the department of internal medicine in 1975. From 1994-97 he served as president of Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Thier's many accolades include the John Phillips Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (2001) and the Robert H. Williams, M.D., Distinguished Chair of Medicine Award from the Association of Professors of Medicine (2003). He was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1988. | |
| 194 | Name: | Mr. Franklin A. Thomas | | | Institution: | Ford Foundation; The Study Group | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | Death Date: | December 22, 2021 | | | | | | |
Franklin A. Thomas was born in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Franklin K. Lane High School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia College in 1956 and a degree in law from Columbia University Law School in 1963. From 1956-60 he was a navigator in the United States Air Force, Strategic Air Command. In 1963, Mr. Thomas became an attorney for the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, and in 1964 he was named an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. From 1965-67 he served as Deputy Police Commissioner in Charge of Legal Matters for the New York City Police Department. From 1967-77, Mr. Thomas served as President and CEO of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, one of the nation's first public/private partnerships aimed at the comprehensive development (housing, business development, education, culture and recreation) of one of the nation's largest distressed urban communities. The Restoration Corporation has served as a model for thousands of similarly focused community-based development corporations throughout the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Thomas was Chair of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward South Africa from 1979-81 and later served as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa from 1985-87. In June 1979, he was elected President of the Ford Foundation, having joined the Foundation's Board of Trustees in 1977. During the seventeen years that he led the Ford Foundation, its assets quadrupled and he deployed those assets on behalf of social justice and economic freedom across the world. He retired from that position in 1996. The Study Group, which he heads, provides advice to leaders and organizations in the non-profit and governmental sectors in support of equitable human development worldwide. Mr. Thomas is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Award for "Contributions to the Betterment of Urban Life," the John Jay and Alexander Hamilton Awards from Columbia College, and Columbia Law School's James Kent Medal for distinguished professional achievement. He is also the recipient of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Award and of Columbia University's Medal of Excellence. He has been granted honorary degrees from Bank Street College, Columbia University, Fordham University, New School University, Pace University, Pratt University and Yale University. Mr. Thomas is a director/trustee of several corporate and not for profit boards and serves as an advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. From 2001-06 Mr. Thomas was chair of the September 11th Fund, created by the New York City Community Trust and the United Way of New York City in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Fund assisted victims, their families and affected communities. | |
| 195 | Name: | Dr. Sarah E. Thomas | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Sarah Thomas was Bodley's Librarian, the first woman and non-British citizen to hold the position since 1602. She headed the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford from 2007 through July 2013. From August 2013 through March 2019 she took up the position of Vice President for the Harvard Library at Harvard University and subsequently was also named University Librarian and Roy E. Larsen Librarian of the Faculty of Arts and Science. She shaped the library's vision to increase focus on user-centered services that connect faculty, students, alumni, and researchers with library resources online and in person. She spearheaded efforts to advance digital scholarship, committing library resources to open access and she advanced collaboration among libraries in areas such as shared storage, shared resources, and shared collections. She was University Librarian at Cornell University from 1996 until 2007. She began her career at Harvard University's Widener Library and has since worked at Johns Hopkins University, the Research Libraries Group (Stanford, CA), the National Agricultural Library, and the Library of Congress. She is a recipient of the Smith College Medal (2009), the Melvil Dewey Award (2007) from the American Library Association, and in 2004 she served as the President of the Association of Research Libraries. From 2013 to 2020 she was a trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition she has served on the boards of OCLC, the Natural History Museum, London, Historic Deerfield, and the Walters Art Gallery. She is a graduate of Smith College, and holds a MS in Library Science from Simmons College, Boston, and a Ph.D. in German literature from the Johns Hopkins University. Sarah Thomas was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 196 | Name: | Dr. P. Roy Vagelos | | | Institution: | Merck & Co., Inc. | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | | | | |
Roy Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from 1985-94. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from 1986-94. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. Earlier, he served as Chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and as Founding Director of the University's Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Previously he held senior positions in cellular physiology and biochemistry at the National Heart Institute, after internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. The author of more than 100 scientific papers, Dr. Vagelos received the Enzyme Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society in 1967. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Washington University, Brown University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New York University, Columbia University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pamukkale University in Turkey, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of British Columbia; an honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University; and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University. He received the Thomas Alva Edison Award from Thomas Kean, the Lawrence A. Wien Prize from Columbia University, the C. Walter Nicholas Award from New York University's Stern School of Business, the National Academy of Science Award for Chemistry in Service to Society, the Othmer Gold Medal from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the 1999 Bower Award in Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute. His Majesty the King in Bangkok, Thailand awarded the Prince Mahidol Award to Dr. Vagelos in January 1998. Dr. Vagelos was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-99, having served as a trustee since 1988. He also served as Co-Chairman of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center from 1989-99 and was President and CEO of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1999-2001. Dr. Vagelos is a Director of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a Trustee of The Danforth Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Theravance, Inc. and was Chairman of the Review, Planning and Implementation Steering Committee of New Jersey and the Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development. | |
| 197 | Name: | Mr. Cyrus R. Vance | | | Institution: | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | January 12, 2002 | | | | |
| 198 | Name: | Dr. Charles M. Vest | | | Institution: | National Academy of Engineering | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | Death Date: | December 12, 2013 | | | | | | |
Charles M. Vest was President Emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the time of his death December 12, 2013, at the age of 72, in Washington, DC.
Dr. Vest earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963, and M.S.E. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967 respectively. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 1968 where he taught in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanic, and conducted research in heat transfer and engineering applications of laser optics and holography. He and his graduate students developed techniques for making quantitative measurements of various properties and motions from holographic interferograms, especially the measurement of three-dimensional temperature and density fields using computer tomography. He became an associate professor in 1972 and a full professor in 1977.
In 1981 Dr. Vest turned much of his attention to academic administration at the University of Michigan, serving as associate dean of engineering from 1981-86, dean of engineering from 1986-1989, when he became provost and vice president for academic affairs. In 1990 he became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and served in that position until December 2004. He then became professor and president emeritus.
As president of MIT, he was active in science, technology, and innovation policy; building partnerships among academia, government and industry; and championing the importance of open, global scientific communication, travel, and sharing of intellectual resources. During his tenure, MIT launched its OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative; co-founded the Alliance for Global Sustainability; enhanced the racial, gender, and cultural diversity of its students and faculty; established major new institutes in neuroscience and genomic medicine; and redeveloped much of its campus.
He was a director of DuPont for 14 years and of IBM for 13 years; was vice chair of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness for eight years; and served on various federal committees and commissions, including the Presidents Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) during the Clinton and Bush administrations, the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy and the Rice-Chertoff Secure Borders and Open Doors Advisory Committee. He served on the boards of several non-profit organizations and foundations devoted to education, science, and technology.
In July 2007 he was elected to serve as president of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for six years and he became president emeritus in 2013. He had authored a book on holographic interferometry, and two books on higher education. He received honorary doctoral degrees from ten universities, was awarded the 2006 National Medal of Technology by President Bush, and won the National Science Board's Vannevar Bush Award in 2011. Charles Vest was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. | |
| 199 | Name: | Mr. Paul A. Volcker | | | Institution: | New York University & Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | December 8, 2019 | | | | | | |
Over the course of his career, Paul A. Volcker was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System; North American Chairman of The Trilateral Commission; Chairman of Wolfensohn & Co., Inc.; and Professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton University. Educated at Princeton and Harvard Universities and the London School of Economics, Mr. Volcker divided the earlier stages of his career between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chase Manhattan Bank and the U.S. Treasury Department. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee, overseeing a renewed effort to develop consistent, high-quality accounting standards acceptable in all countries. He is remembered especially for his success in lowering the inflation rate during his time as Chariman of the Federal Reserve. In November 2008 he agreed to lead the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, a new White House economic advisory committee comprised of officials from a variety of business sectors. Paul Volcker died December 8, 2019 in New York, New York at the age of 92. | |
| 200 | Name: | Mr. Darren Walker | | | Institution: | Ford Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | 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: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, a $13 billion international social justice philanthropy. He is a member of Governor Cuomo’s Reimagining New York Commission and co-chair of NYC Census 2020. He chaired the philanthropy committee that brought a resolution to the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy. Under his leadership, the Ford Foundation became the first non-profit in US history to issue a $1 billion designated social bond in US capital markets for proceeds to strengthen and stabilize non-profit organizations in the wake of COVID-19.
Before joining Ford, Darren was vice president at Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing global and domestic programs. In the 1990s, he was COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, Harlem’s largest community development organization.
Darren co-chairs New York City’s Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, and has served on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and the UN International Labour Organization Global Commission on the Future of Work. He co-founded both the US Impact Investing Alliance and the Presidents’ Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy. He serves on many boards, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, Carnegie Hall, the High Line, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. In the summer of 2020, he was appointed to the boards of Square and Ralph Lauren. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the recipient of 16 honorary degrees and university awards, including Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal.
Educated exclusively in public schools, Darren was a member of the first Head Start class in 1965 and received BA, BS, and JD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been included on numerous leadership lists: Time’s annual 100 Most Influential People, Rolling Stone’s 25 People Shaping the Future, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Ebony's Power 100, and Out magazine’s Power 50. Most recently, Darren was named Wall Street Journal’s 2020 Philanthropy Innovator. | |
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