Jessica T. Mathews Appointed to the Harvard Corporation

Jessica T. Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has been elected a member of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board of Harvard University.

The Harvard Corporation, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, is Harvard’s principal fiduciary governing board and the smaller of Harvard’s two boards. The governing boards approved a plan in 2010 to expand the Corporation from seven to thirteen members over the course of several years.

In a message to the University community, Robert D. Reischauer, senior fellow of the Corporation, and President Drew Faust said, “Jessica Mathews is a widely admired figure in the international affairs domain, with a career that has combined excellence in nonprofit leadership with experience in government, policy, science, environmental affairs, and journalism.”

Mathews, an alumna and past trustee of Radcliffe College, has served for the past fifteen years as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. Under her leadership, Carnegie is pioneering the first global think tank, with offices now in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, Beirut, and Brussels.

Mathews said, “I am thrilled to be coming home to Harvard. The world of education is globalizing, with consequences as profound as those for government and business. Having spent more than a decade building a global think tank, I look forward to helping think through this great university’s international role and contributing all I can to the full range of the Corporation’s work.”

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