COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Access Clerk ( Day )
- Clerical Assistant III / Avery Library
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- Communications Manager / Research & Learning Administration
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- Founding Partner of Assembled Brands Group
Adam Pritzker is an entrepreneur and philanthropist focused on building dynamic, forward-thinking organizations that are shaping the next generation of businesses and tackling the most pressing civic problems of our time.
Adam is the founding partner of Assembled Brands Group, a firm that partners with emerging direct-to-consumer companies to provide working capital, business insights, and a professional network to help scale their businesses. Under his leadership, Assembled Brands has incubated several successful companies, including Khaite, a leading digitally native luxury fashion brand.
In addition to his work with Assembled Brands, Adam is also a forward-looking investor and founding partner of Wholestack, an investment vehicle that supports early stage funds in emerging domains such as cryptocurrency, synthetic biology, regenerative agriculture, and more.
Prior to founding Assembled Brands and Wholestack, Adam began his entrepreneurial career as the co-founder of General Assembly, a pioneering co-working and education company focused on providing professional development and teaching the most in-demand technology, business, and design skills. Since its launch in 2011, General Assembly has trained over one million students at campuses across four continents.
Adam is also founding partner of The States Project, a nonprofit advocacy organization that works to win governing majorities in state legislatures across the country and promote smart, effective policies that will safeguard our democracy, protect individual rights and improve people's lives.
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- Senior Application Systems Developer
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- Director, Communications / Research & Learning Administration
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- Financial Services Assistant
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- Executive Vice President for University Development
Amelia Alverson is executive vice president for University Development and Alumni Relations, leading Columbia's fundraising efforts and outreach to alumni worldwide. Prior to 2014, she served as senior vice president for development at Columbia University Medical Center. Before joining Columbia in 2009, Alverson was vice president for development at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. She has more than 25 years of development experience in academic medicine, including leadership roles at Stanford Medical Center, the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois.
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- Executive Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Amy Hungerford is the Executive Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Director
- Interim Executive Vice President
- Professor
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons
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- Vice Provost and University Librarian
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- Director, Digital Scholarship
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- Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
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- Assistant to the Vice Provost & University Librarian
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- Senior Application Systems Developer
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- Bibliographic Assistant V
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- Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise
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- Avery Index Editor / Avery Library
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Columbia University Medical Center / Avinoam Shalem
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- Assistant Field Operations Coordinator
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- Director, Digital Library and Scholarly Technologies
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- Digital Content Assistant
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- Bibliographic Assistant V
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- Associate Editor of the Washington Post
Bob Woodward has been an associate editor of The Washington Post for 52 years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2002 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He has authored or coauthored 21 books, all national bestsellers. Fifteen were #1 New York Times bestsellers, including his last three books on the Trump presidency: Fear (2018), Rage (2020) and Peril (2021). Woodward recently released The Trump Tapes, an audiobook bestseller of his 20 historic interviews with President Donald Trump.
John Harris of Politico wrote, "Over nearly a half-century, no other person-including people wielding official power as legislators or prosecutors-has done as much to illuminate the modern presidency and help shape understanding of the nine people to hold the office during his career as Woodward, wielding only a journalist's unofficial powers of curiosity, notepad, and recorder."
Bob Schieffer of CBS News has said, "Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time."
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- Special Collections Analyst
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- Web Content Manager / Research & Learning Administration
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- Director of Library Information Technology
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- Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry / Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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- Digital Projects Librarian
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- Assistant Director, Preservation, Reformatting, and Metadata
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- Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures Chair Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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- Technical Assistant / Shipping & Receiving
Carla D. Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress on September 14, 2016. Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library, was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama on February 24, 2016, and her nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 13, 2016.
Prior to her latest post she served, since 1993, as CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland. Hayden was nominated by President Obama to be a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board in January 2010 and was confirmed to that post by the Senate in June 2010. Prior to joining the Pratt Library, Hayden was deputy commissioner and chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library from 1991 to 1993. She was an assistant professor for Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 1987 to 1991. Hayden was library services coordinator for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago from 1982 to 1987. She began her career with the Chicago Public Library as the young adult services coordinator from 1979 to 1982 and as a library associate and children's librarian from 1973 to 1979.
Hayden was President of the American Library Association from 2003 to 2004. In 1995, she was the first African American to receive Library Journal's Librarian of the Year Award in recognition of her outreach services at the Pratt Library, which included an after-school center for Baltimore teens offering homework assistance and college and career counseling. Hayden received a BA from Roosevelt University and an MA and PhD from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago.
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- Public Services Librarian
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- Chairman, Committee on Global Thought
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- Chairman of Interschool Planning, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
- Professor of Pathology and Cell
Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology); Chair of Interschool Planning in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
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- Executive Assistant to the Provost
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- Director, Healthcare
- Professor of Business
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- Associate Professor of History / Shana Redmond
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- Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law / Columbia Law School
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- Head, Metadata Management
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- Project Archivist for the Oral History Archives
- Project Archivist, Obama Presidency Oral History Project and Brodsky Oral History Collection
Chelsea Reil is a Project Archivist for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She is currently working on the Obama Presidency Oral History Project will process the Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Collection. Before working at Columbia, she was Registrar at the New York Transit Museum, preserving the history of New York's public transit systems. She has also worked in the archives at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Democracy Now!, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños) at Hunter College, and Queens College. Chelsea holds an MLIS with a concentration in Archives from Queens College and a BA in Journalism and Spanish from Northeastern University.
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- Budget & Financial Analyst
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- Japanese Studies Librarian
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- Associate University Librarian for Collections
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- Architecture Bibliographer / Indexer
- Architecture Librarian
- Fine Arts
- Real Estate ( Development )
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- Associate Application Systems Developer
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- Associate Application Systems Developer
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- Bibliographic Assistant IV
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- Associate Director of Research
- Professor
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- Library Assistant IV / Avery Library
- Service Desk Clerk ( Evenings and Weekends )
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- Director, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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- Digital Project Coordinator
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- Library Assistant IV / Avery Library
David Amel Olson is the Oral History Archivist for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Before working at Columbia, David worked with oral history collections documenting the history of the radical left and labor movements at New York University's Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. David holds an MA from NYU in Archives and Public History and an MLIS from Long Island University's Palmer School. His introduction to archives was working at the Social Welfare History Archives, while pursing his BA in history from the University of Minnesota. David has also previously worked in state government and the legal sector.
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- Associate
- Facilities Coordinator
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- Executive Vice President for University Facilities
David Greenberg is the executive vice president for University Facilities and Operations, responsible for new building design and construction, public safety, campus services for students, building and grounds maintenance, oversight of Manhattanville construction and the University's residential portfolio. Prior to joining Facilities and Operations, Greenberg served as the first executive director of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, where he continues to provide strategic and operational oversight. Greenberg has worked at the University since 2006 and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester; a master's of public administration from Syracuse University; and a master's of Construction Administration from Columbia.
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- Manager, Digital Imaging Lab 13
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- Chairman, Columbia Department of Astronomy Co - Director, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory
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- Associate Director for Research, Institute of Human Nutrition
- Professor of Genetics and Development ( in the Center for Reproductive Sciences, in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in the Institute of Human Nutrition )
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- Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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- Digital Preservation Librarian
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- Senior Web Systems Manager
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- Curator for Oral History for the Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Curator of Oral History
- Curator of Oral History / Columbia Center for Oral History Archives
Dr. Kimberly Springer is Curator for Oral History for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She holds a master's of information science, specializing in archives, preservation and social computing from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She obtained her doctorate from the Women's Studies Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
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- Avery Classics Assistant
- Library Assistant V
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- East Asian Technical Services Supervisor
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- Professor of Economics / Vishal Misra
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- Bibliographic Assistant V
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- Director, Preservation, Reformatting and Digitization
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- Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Collections
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- Journalism & Government Information Librarian
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- GIS / Metadata Librarian Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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- Senior Web Designer / Developer
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- Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian
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- Associate Director of Digital Project Management
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- Bibliographic Assistant V
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- Chinese Processing Archivist
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- Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- South Asian Studies Librarian
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- George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, English and Comparative Literature / Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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- Senior Executive Vice President of the University
Gerald Rosberg is senior executive vice president of the University. He works with the president and the University's senior leadership on long-term planning and human resource and other strategic issues, with a particular focus on coordination across departments. He served for 20 years as a senior executive of the Washington Post Company (now Graham Holdings). Before that he was a lawyer in private practice and a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School.
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- Curator, Echols Collection on Southeast Asia, Cornell University
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- Vice Chair of Research, Department of Psychiatry
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- Associate
- Systems Engineer
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- Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy, Political Science / Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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- Bibliographic Assistant V
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science College of Dental Medicine
- Vida L.W. Hudson Professor
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- Professor of Financial Institutions
- Professor of International
Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, and presidential candidate. After graduating from Wellesley College and Yale Law School, she began her life-long work on behalf of children and families by joining the Children's Defense Fund. As First Lady of the United States, she championed healthcare reform and led successful bipartisan efforts to improve the adoption and foster care systems, reduce teen pregnancy, and create the Children's Health Insurance Program. As Senator from New York, she worked to expand economic opportunity and access to quality, affordable health care. After September 11, 2001, she helped to rebuild New York and provide health care for first responders.
As Secretary of State, she led the effort to restore America's leadership in the world. She negotiated a cease-fire in Gaza that defended Israel's security and headed off-war in the Middle East. Furthermore, she mobilized an international coalition to impose sanctions against Iran, and championed human rights.
In 2016, Clinton became the first woman nominated for U.S. president by a major U.S. political party. As the Democratic candidate, she campaigned for a vision of America that is "stronger together" and an agenda to make our economy work for everyone, earning the support of nearly 66 million Americans.
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History / Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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- Research Collections & Services Librarian
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- Chairman, Research Subcommittee
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- Evening and Weekend Access Supervisor
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- Lead Applications Developer
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- Supervisor, Social Work Library
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- Avery Index Editor / Avery Library
- Editor, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
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- Head, Collections Management
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- George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, English and Comparative Literature / Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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- Head, Lehman & Journalism Libraries Operations
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- Executive Vice President for Research
Jeannette M. Wing is the Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University. In this role, she has overall responsibility for the University's research enterprise at all locations, including the Morningside and Manhattanville campuses, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Nevis Laboratories, and internationally. She joined Columbia in 2017 as the Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science.
Prior to Columbia, Dr. Wing was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research, served on the faculty and as department head in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, and served as Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. She received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Co - Founder and Trustee of the Crimson Lion
Jeannie Lavine is the Co-Founder and Trustee of the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation, an organization established by her and her husband, Jonathan Lavine, which delivers financial resources to a wide variety of nonprofit organizations focused on leveling the playing field for individuals and families. Under their leadership, the foundation has supported a diverse array of causes including numerous initiatives at Columbia University designed to impact many aspects of student life, faculty support, research, and scholarship, and support of Columbia's neighboring communities. Currently, the Lavines are chairing Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health centennial year celebrations.
Mrs. Lavine is a close partner to Mr. Lavine on his various leadership roles at Columbia and a proud parent of two Columbia alumnae, Allie Lavine '16CC and Emily Lavine '18CC, and a son-in-law, Nathan Rosin '18CC. The Columbia community and her family's transformational philanthropy have been inextricably linked for more than three decades. During that time, the Lavines have supported all 18 of Columbia's schools. In addition to the family's work with Columbia, Mrs. Lavine helped establish the Massachusetts chapter of Stand for Children, a nonprofit training and leadership organization that teaches citizens how to band together and become effective grassroots advocates for long-lasting improvements for children. She chairs the President's Advisory Council for Combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston and was a long-time Board member at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Lavine served as a Founding Member of The Better Angels Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating Americans about history through documentary film. The Lavines have sponsored six documentaries produced by Ken Burns including "The U.S. and the Holocaust," "Ben Franklin," and "Vietnam." They worked with The Better Angels Society and Ken Burns to create the Annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, which recognizes filmmakers who use the documentary medium to tell stories about American history using original research and compelling narrative. In addition, the Lavines established The Better Angels Lavine Fellowship program designed to engage up-and-coming documentarians with a special emphasis on film projects telling the stories of America's diversity. They also established the Lavine Family Documentary Fund at Columbia Journalism School.
Earlier in her career, Mrs. Lavine worked as a strategy consultant for The Monitor Group and Boston Consulting Group. She earned her degree in Economics from Harvard College, graduated magna cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mrs. Lavine went on to Harvard Business School where she received her MBA with distinction.
Passionately committed to higher education, Mrs. Lavine is also an active member of the Harvard University community, serving as a member of the Dean's Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and as a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors for Harvard Business School. She has been recognized for her service and philanthropy to Harvard College and Harvard Business School. She also previously served as Co-Chair of the Campaign for the Harvard School of Public Health.
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- Application Systems Developer
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- Supervisor, ReCAP Access Services and Borrow Direct
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- Archivist, Carnegie Collections
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- Public Services Librarian / Avery Library
- Research Services Librarian
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- Head, Humanities and History
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- Head, Research Data Services
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- Secretary of the University
Jerome Davis, secretary of the University, serves as the liason between the senior administration and the Trustees. He prepares the agenda for the Trustees' meetings and maintains the University Statutes. In addition, he oversees the process for selecting honorary degree recipients and the winners of the University Medal of Excellence. The secretary also undertakes special projects on behalf of the president and the Trustees.
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- Web Services & User Experience Librarian
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- Collections Analysis Librarian
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- Program Advisor for the Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species Major
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- Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
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- Head, Access and User Experience
Joan C. Waters is the University's ombuds officer, responsible for offering independent, impartial, and confidential services for the entire Columbia community of students, faculty, and staff on all campuses. Appointed in 2014, Ms. Waters and her staff provide a place for individuals across the University to discuss workplace complaints and other campus problems. Ms. Waters brings to Columbia her extensive professional experience as an Associate General Counsel at The City University of New York, a two-term elected justice in the New York State court system, an attorney in private practice, and a trained mediator and collaborative law practitioner.
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- Director, Human Resources
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- Assistant Director, Human Resources
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- Field Operations Coordinator
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- Reporter
- Contributor to "This Morning
Jodi Kantor is a prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author whose work has revealed hidden truths about power, gender, technology, politics and culture.
In October 2017, she and Megan Twohey broke the story of decades of sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Their work helped ignite the #MeToo movement, shift attitudes, and spur new laws, policies and standards of accountability around the globe. Together with a team of colleagues who exposed harassment across industries, they were awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service , journalism's highest award, and also received or shared in numerous other honors, including a 2017 George Polk Award.
She Said, Kantor and Twohey's book recounting the Weinstein investigation, was called "an instant classic of investigative journalism" by The Washington Post and one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, The New York Times, Time, and many other publications.
Before then, Ms. Kantor's article about the havoc caused by automated scheduling systems in Starbucks workers' lives spurred changes at the company and helped begin a national fair-scheduling movement. After she and David Streitfeld investigated punishing practices at Amazon's corporate headquarters, the company changed its human resources policies, introducing paternity leave and eliminating its employee ranking system. Ms. Kantor's report on working mothers and breastfeeding inspired two readers to create the first free-standing lactation suites for nursing mothers, now available in hundreds of airports and stadiums.
For six years, Ms. Kantor wrote about Barack and Michelle Obama, delving into their ideas, biographies, family, marriage, faith, and approach to the White House, and covering the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Ms. Kantor's best-selling book The Obamas, about their behind-the-scenes adjustment to the jobs of president and first lady, was published in 2012.
Ms. Kantor, a contributor to "This Morning" on CBS, lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Ron Lieber, and their two daughters. Please follow her work on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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- Director, Finance & Payroll
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- Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and Professor of Pharmacology
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- Night / Early Morning Supervisor
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- English Literature & Language
- Research Collections & Services Librarian
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- Manager, Desktop Services
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- Digitization & Preservation Projects Manager
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
Jonathan Lavine is Co-Managing Partner of Bain Capital, one of the world's leading private investment firms. He founded Bain Capital Credit and Bain Capital Special Situations in 1998.
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- Associate Professor
- Co - Chair
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- Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism Dean Emeritus / Columbia Journalism School
Joyce Ladner was a Professor of Sociology, Provost, and Interim President at Howard University. When she became Interim President of Howard University in 1994, she brought the University through a significant budget ($25M) shortfall, which was a period of austerity that involved layoffs of staff and a freeze on spending, yet for Ladner, was a matter of saving the University. By the end of that year, she was successful in closing the budget gap. Following her time as Interim President, Ladner was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the District of Columbia Financial Control Board for a three-year term, to balance the city's budget after it became bankrupt. Ladner was also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
As a sociologist, Ladner studied and interpreted the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in her book, Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman that was the forerunner of the field of Black Girlhood Studies, and is a canon in the field. Her second book, The Death of White Sociology, was a landmark work that challenged the value neutrality of mainstream sociology. Her other books include Mixed Families: Adopting Across Racial Boundaries, The Ties that Bind: Timeless Values for African American Familie s and Launching Our Black Children for Success: A Guide for Parents of Kids from Three to Eighteen. She studied the roles of Tanzanian women in nation building and has lived in Dakar, Senegal. The poet Robert Pinsky also mentioned Ladner and her mentor, holocaust survivor Ernst Borinski, in his poem titled "Poem of Names" (The New Yorker, 2019).
A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Ladner began her fight for social justice as a teenager when she helped organize an NAACP Youth Chapter in her hometown. She was expelled from Jackson State College in 1961 for organizing a civil rights protest.
Ladner was on the front line of most of the major civil rights protests in the sixties including Greenwood, Birmingham, Albany, Georgia, Selma, and Jackson. As a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), she was mentored by civil rights pioneers Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker. She worked with slain civil rights leaders Medgar Evers and Vernon Dahmer, and two of the three civil rights workers, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered during the Mississippi Freedom Summer.
Ladner was on the twelve-person staff that organized the March on Washington in 1963 under the direction of Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph in Harlem, ands he was on the stage when Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, DC. She is completing her memoir titled Standing in the Gap: A Memoir of Resistance, Rebirth and Redemption that captures the spirit of her 1960s generation of young civil rights workers who challenged segregation and discrimination in the South and changed the face of America.
Ladner earned a BA from Tougaloo College in 1964 and a PhD from Washington University, St. Louis in 1968.
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- Vice Provost for Communications and Engagement
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- Curator, Comics & Cartoons Lecturer in English & Comparative Literatur
- Curator, Comics & Cartoons Lecturer in English & Comparative Literature
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- Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- Director, Cataloging & Metadata Services
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- Collection Analysis Librarian
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- Library Assistant IV
- Service Desk Clerk ( Evenings and Weekends )
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- Digital Project & Outreach Librarian
- Digital Project and Outreach Librarian / Avery Library
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- Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- Digital Repository Manager
Katori Hall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, two-time Tony-nominated Memphis-native, and book writer and co-producer of the West End and Broadway hit Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. She's also the creator of P-VALLEY, the Starz drama based on her play, Pussy Valley. The critically-acclaimed series has garnered a variety of accolades, including the NAACP Image Award for Best Television Drama. Hall's latest theatrical piece, The Hot Wing King, premiered in Spring 2020 at the Signature Theatre, rounding out her three-play residency and winning her the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her play The Mountaintop, which fictionalizes the last night in Martin Luther King's life, won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010 before opening on Broadway in October 2011 to critical acclaim. Hall's other works include the award-winning Hurt Village, Hoodoo Love, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Our Lady of Kibeho, Children of Killers, and The Blood Quilt. She is also the director of the award-winning short, ARKABUTLA. Hall is an alumna of Columbia University, the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, and The Juilliard School. She is a graduate of the Sundance Episodic Lab's inaugural class, the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, and Ryan Murphy's Half Foundation Directing Program. Hall's additional honors include a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, NYFA Fellowship, the Columbia University John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, National Black Theatre's August Wilson Playwriting Award, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award.
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Executive Vice President for Health
Katrina Armstrong, MD, leads Columbia University's medical campus as the Chief Executive Officer of CUIMC, which includes the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), the School of Nursing, the College of Dental Medicine, and the Mailman School of Public Health. She also is Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences for Columbia University and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. As VP&S dean, Dr. Armstrong leads the nation's second oldest medical school and the first to award an MD degree. She is an internationally recognized investigator in medical decision making, quality of care, and cancer prevention and outcomes, an award-winning teacher, and a practicing primary care physician.
She has served on multiple advisory panels for academic and federal organizations and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Before joining Columbia, Dr. Armstrong was the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before joining Harvard, she was Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Associate Director of the Abramson Cancer Center, and Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Yale University (BA degree in architecture), Johns Hopkins (MD degree), and the University of Pennsylvania (MS degree in clinical epidemiology). She completed her residency training in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins.
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- Department of Art History and Archaeology, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- Chairman
- Professor of Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Music, Ethnomusicology, and African American and African Diaspora Studies
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- Head of Archives Processing
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- Associate Director for Development
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- President and Chief Executive Officer of the Columbia Investment Management Company
Kim Y. Lew is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Columbia Investment Management Company, responsible for managing the University's endowment. She came to Columbia from Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she worked for more than a decade, most recently as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer.
Lew began her career at Chemical Bank as a credit analyst, after receiving her BS in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to graduate with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992, after which she joined Prudential Capital Group and then the Ford Foundation, where she spent more than a decade, first as a portfolio strategist investing in the technology sector and then as a senior manager responsible for the organization's private equity investments.
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- Order and Continuing Resources Librarian
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- Director of Collection Strategies
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- Special Collections Librarian
- Special Collections Librarian / Avery Library
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- Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistant, Art Properties
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- Technical Assistant VI
- Technical Assistant VI / Avery Library
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- Co - Chair, Education Subcommittee ) Dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia College
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- Professor of Computer Science
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- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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- Digital Learning & Emerging Technologies Specialist
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- Access Services Coordinator
- Access Services Coordinator / Avery Library
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- Supervisor, Shipping & Receiving
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- Head, Exhibitions and Digital Asset Management
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- Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences School of International and Public Affairs
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- Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Mario Gooden
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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- Director, Collections Acquisition and Description
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- Miriam Champion Professor of History
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- Human Resources Assistant
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- Head, Collections Acquisitions Services
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- Head, the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
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- Co - Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
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- Professional Practice in Film in the Faculty of the Arts
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- Senior Vice President for Columbia Health
Dr. Melanie Bernitz is the Senior Vice President for Columbia Health. In this role, she is responsible for the oversight and provision of health and wellbeing services to students on the Morningside campus. Dr. Bernitz joined Columbia Health in 2016. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of the Student Health Service at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Prior to that position, Dr. Bernitz was a resident, chief resident, and faculty member in Columbia's Center for Family and Community Medicine. Growing up in the United Kingdom, she received both her bachelor's degree in psychology and a degree in medicine at University College London. She then received her master's degree in public health at Columbia University. She is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Center of Family and Community Medicine.
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- Head of Digital Resources Metadata
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- Vice Provost for Academic Programs
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- Western European Humanities Librarian
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- Head, Access Services & Operations
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- Head, Monographic Recon Projects
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- Curator, Avery Drawings & Archives / Avery Library
- Curator, Drawings & Archives
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- Web Collections Librarian
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- Metadata Operations Specialist
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- University Professor / School of Social Work
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- Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies, & Performing Arts
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- Vice President for Research Compliance, Training and Policy
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- Project Archivist for the Prokoviev Archives
Nemat "Minouche" Shafik is an economist, policymaker, and higher education leader who will become the 20th President of Columbia University in the City of New York on July 1, 2023. For more than three decades, she has served in senior leadership roles across a range of prominent international and academic institutions. Since 2017 she has been President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), one of the world's leading centers for research and teaching in the social sciences.
Before her tenure at LSE, Shafik served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, where she led work on fighting misconduct in financial markets and was responsible for a balance sheet of about $600 billion; Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, where she helped navigate turbulence surrounding the European debt crisis and the Arab Spring; Permanent Secretary of the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, where she helped secure the UK's commitment to giving 0.7% of GDP in aid and focused it on fighting poverty in the poorest countries in the world; and the youngest-ever Vice President of the World Bank, where she worked on the institution's first-ever report on the environment, led work on infrastructure and private sector investment, and advised governments in post-communist Eastern Europe. She also serves as a trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the British Museum, and BRAC, the world's largest non-governmental organization.
Shafik earned a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MSc from LSE, and a DPhil from St Antony's College, Oxford. She has received a life peerage and membership of the House of Lords, a damehood for services to the global economy, an honorary fellowship of the British Academy, and several honorary degrees.
She is married to Raffael Jovine, a molecular biologist, with whom she has two college-aged children and three adult stepchildren.
Throughout her career, Minouche has been at the center of efforts-often during pivotal, high-stakes moments-to address some of the world's most complex and disruptive challenges. At the World Bank, she worked on the institution's first-ever report on the environment and later advised governments in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the height of the "Make Poverty History" campaign, Minouche helped secure the UK's commitment to giving 0.7% of GDP in aid and focused it on fighting poverty in the poorest countries in the world. She worked on both the European debt crisis and the Arab Spring while she was at the IMF. At the Bank of England, she led work on fighting misconduct in financial markets and was responsible for the contingency planning around the Brexit referendum. At LSE, she has encouraged academic work on how to rethink the social contract for the modern economy.
Nemat "Minouche" Shafik became the 20 th president of Columbia University on July 1, 2023. She is a distinguished economist who for more than three decades has served in senior leadership roles across a range of prominent international and academic institutions.
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- Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities
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- Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism Dean Emeritus / Columbia Journalism School
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- Head, Gabe M. Weiner Music & Arts Library
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- Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian
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- Associate Director, Business Services
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- Bibliographic Assistant V
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- Associate Director, Assessment and Analytics
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- Librarian for Jewish Studies
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Executive Director of Columbia Technology Ventures
In addition to his role as vice President, Orin Herskowitz serves as Executive Director of Columbia Technology Ventures, which manages more than 350 invention disclosures emerging from Columbia's research labs each year, leading to over 100 license deals and over 20 new start-ups annually. Mr. Herskowitz has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for several innovation and entrepreneurship-focused initiatives, including the NYC Media Lab, PowerBridgeNY, and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership. Prior to joining Columbia, he spent seven years with the Boston Consulting Group's New York office.
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- Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy, Political Science / Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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- Archivist
- Architecture Archivist / Avery Library
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- Director, Center for Science and Society
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- Director, Humanities & Global Studies Director, Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research
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- Associate Director, Data Science Institute
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- Technical Services Archivist
Patti Smith is a writer, performer and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released 12 albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time by Rolling Stone.
Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and was represented by the Robert Miller Gallery for three decades. Her retrospective exhibitions include the Andy Warhol Museum, the Fondation Cartier, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence, M Train, and Devotion.
In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
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- Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
Peter E. Pilling is William Campbell Family Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education. Prior to joining Columbia Athletics, Pilling served as senior associate athletic director at several of the most respected college sports programs in the country, including Villanova and Brigham Young universities. As a vice president at IMG College, the nation's largest collegiate sports management company, Pilling has extensive experience serving athletics departments of Division I schools including Texas Christian University, Baylor University and the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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- Middle East & Islamic Studies Librarian
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Evening and Weekend Supervisor
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- Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Head of Public Services / East Asian Studies Librarian
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- Associate Director, Libraries Facilities
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- Director, Copyright Advisory Services
Robert Gates, former director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, said of Woodward, "He has extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill [their] guts to him…his ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn't be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique."
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- Global Studies - 309 International Affairs
- Global Studies - 309 International Affairs / Meet With Me / Subjects
- Global Studies - 309 International Affairs / Subjects
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- Associate Vice President for Technology & Preservation
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- Curator of Art Properties
- Curator of Art Properties Lecturer in Art History & Archaeology
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- Professor of Computer Science Chair, Department of Computer Science / the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Adjunct Professor
- Chairman
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- Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Research Collections & Services Librarian: Women & Gender Studies
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- Lecturer in Music, Assistant Director of the Computer Music and Sound Art Program
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- Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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- Head, Library Infrastructure Systems
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- Executive Vice President for Public Affairs
Shailagh Murray was appointed Executive Vice President for Public Affairs in September 2018. She oversees the Office of Communications and Public Affairs and the Office of Government and Community Affairs. She spent nearly six years shaping communications strategy inside the Obama White House, most recently serving as Senior Advisor to President Obama from 2015 to 2017. Previously, she was Vice President Biden's deputy chief of staff and communications director. Prior to that, she worked as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She has a BA in humanities from University of Missouri-Columbia and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University.
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- Associate Professor of History / Shana Redmond
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- Evening & Weekend Access Supervisor
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- Archivist
- Collections Manager
- Archivist, Drawings and Archives / Avery Library
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- Director of Moving Image, Visual Arts Program, School of the Arts
Professor Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is known for a wide variety of contributions to mathematics and theoretical physics. With Richard Schoen, he proved the positive mass conjecture, discovered the first black hole existence theorem due to the condensation of matter, and most recently, he and Mu-Tao Wang worked on defining "quasilocal mass," which allows the measurement of gravitational energy on any finitely extended region. Making use of ideas from quasilocal quantities, they solved a long outstanding problem on understanding angular momentum in general relativity. Yau is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a recipient of the Fields Medal, the Crafoord Prize, the United States National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, and the Marcel Grossmann Award.
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- Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Columbia University Medical Center / Avinoam Shalem
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- Assistant Director of Collection Strategies
Susan Glancy joined the Office of the President as Chief of Staff in 2006, and she is responsible for providing administrative and strategic support to President Shafik and her senior staff for University initiatives as well as day-to-day operations. Previously, she was Executive Director for Special Projects for Columbia University Human Resources and Director of Human Resources for Columbia Business School. Prior to Columbia, Susan worked for The Walt Disney Company in New York City. Glancy graduated from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Theatre and received a Master's in Social and Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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- Associate Provost for Academic Programs
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- Evening and Weekend Access Assistant
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- Teaching and Undergraduate Services Librarian
- Undergraduate Services
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- Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian
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- International and Public Affairs
Tania León (b. Havana, Cuba) is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. Her orchestral work Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 2022, she was named a recipient of the 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. In 2023, she was awarded the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition from Northwestern University. Most recently, León became the London Philharmonic Orchestra's next Composer-in-Residence-a post she will hold for two seasons, beginning in September 2023. She will also hold Carnegie Hall's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair for its 2023-2024 season.
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- Curator, Bakhmeteff Archiv
- Curator, Bakhmeteff Archive
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- Public Services Librarian
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- Metadata Operations Specialist
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- Director
- Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
- Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library / Avery Library
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- Lehman Curator for American History Lecturer in History
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- Associate Director Grants Administration
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- Professor of International and Public Affairs / School of International and Public Affairs
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- Co - Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
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- Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law / Columbia Law School
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- Director, Access Services
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- Chairman
- Professor of Chemistry
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- East Asian Technical Services Supervisor
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Public Services Specialist
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- Professor of Economics / Vishal Misra
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- Bibliographic Assistant V / Avery Library
- Serials Assistant
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- Financial Services Assistant VIII
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA is Executive Vice President of Columbia Global, the Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Chair of Global Health at Columbia University, Founder and Director of global health center ICAP at Columbia University, and University Professor in Epidemiology and Medicine. Her vision for Columbia Global is to establish a unifying and strategic platform to promote and facilitate impactful engagement of the University's faculty, students, and alumni with the world to enhance understanding, address global challenges, and advance knowledge and its exchange. Under her strategic leadership, Columbia Global aligns some of the University's key global initiatives, including Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
An expert in global health and infectious diseases with longstanding experience in supporting diverse major health challenges around the world, Dr. El-Sadr has focused her career on advancing public health knowledge and putting that knowledge into action, establishing collaborative partnerships to strengthen health systems, and engaging with communities to meet health threats and improve health outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations around the world. She has led large-scale, innovative projects that have had decisive impacts on such pressing global health challenges as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, antimicrobial resistance, non-communicable diseases including cancer, and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. El-Sadr received her medical degree at Cairo University, a master's in public health from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and a master's in public administration from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She is a MacArthur fellow as well as a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the Council for Foreign Relations, the African Academy of Sciences, and the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health. She is principal investigator for numerous ICAP-led initiatives, including the NIH-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network and the New York City Pandemic Response Institute. She is also the director of Columbia World Projects and director of the Mailman School's Global Health Initiative.
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- Research Support & Data Services Librarian
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- Science & Engineering Librarian
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
William Kentridge is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre, and opera productions.
His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music, theatre, and collaborative practices to create works of art that are grounded in politics, science, literature and history, all the while maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty. His aesthetics are drawn from the medium of film's own history, from stop-motion animation to early special effects. Kentridge's drawing, specifically the dynamism of an erased and redrawn mark, is an integral part of his expanded animation and filmmaking practice, where the meanings of his films are developed during the process of their making.
Kentridge's work has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s, including Documenta in Kassel, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, and the Kunstmuseum in Basel.
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- Bibliographic Assistant VII
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- Library Assistant V / Music Library
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- Research Support & Collection Development Librarian
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- Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- Professor of Biostatistics / Mailman School of Public Health
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- Bibliographic Assistant VI
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- African Studies Librarian
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- Head, Access and Collection Management
- Head, Access Services and Collection Management / Avery Library
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- Bibliographic Assistant IV / Avery Library
- Monographs Assistant
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- Director of the Columbia Center for Archaeology, Department of Anthropology