Board of Trustees

As directors of a nonprofit and as leaders of an institution responsible for educating the next generation of world leaders and for creating new knowledge, trustees are the keepers of the mission of NYU: Educating qualified individuals from all walks of life to become the leaders of the local, national, and, now, international community. They must pay particularly close attention to the mission and the obligations to society that are unique to the academic enterprise. NYU's Board of Trustees is the overall fiduciaries for the University.  As such it is responsible for, among other things, creating policy, setting mission and purpose, strategic planning, reviewing programs, and relating campus to community and community to campus.  Chief among its roles is fund-raising for the University, as well as engaging our alumni, parent, and student communities.

NYU's Board of Trustees is composed of great individuals that have come together to make the world's premier research University.

Trustee Roster

(as of February 15, 2012)

Ronald D. Abramson WSC ’71
Shareholder
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority
Government of Abu Dhabi

Ralph Alexander NYU-Poly '77, '78
Managing Director
Riverstone

Phyllis Putter Barasch  STERN ’81

Maria Bartiromo * WSC ’89
Anchor
CNBC Business News

Marc H. Bell SCPS ’89
Marc Bell Capital Partners, LLC

William R. Berkley STERN ’66
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
W.R. Berkley Corporation

Bill Brewer * LAW ‘78
Managing Partner
Bickel & Brewer

Daniel J. Brodsky * WAG ’70
Partner
The Brodsky Organization

Heather Cannady ** CAS ’04
Associate
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Arthur L. Carter
President
Utilities & Industries Management Corporation

Sharon Chang **STEINHARDT '95, TSOA '98
Managing Trustee
TTSL Chritable Foundation
Founder
Yoxi

Evan R. Chesler * HEIGHTS ’70, LAW ’75
Presiding Partner
Cravath, Swain & Moore LLP

William T. Comfort, III     ** LAW '94, '99
Principal
Conversion Capital Partners Limited

Michael R. Cunningham * SCPS ’95, STEINHARDT ’05
Retired Group Chief Executive Officer
Diversified Global Graphics Group

Florence A. Davis LAW ’79
President
The Starr Foundation

Barry Diller
Chairman and Senior Executive
IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Gale Drukier  * STEINHARDT '72

Joel S. Ehrenkranz LAW ’61, ’63
Senior Partner
Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz, LLP

Laurence D. Fink
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
BlackRock, Inc.

Jay M. Furman STERN ’65, LAW ’71
Principal
RD Management Corporation

H. Dale Hemmerdinger WSC ’67
President
The Hemmerdinger Corporation

Jonathan Herman * HEIGHTS ’69, LAW ’73
Partner
Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Charles J. Hinkaty
Former President & Chief Executive Officer
Del Laboratories, Inc.

Mitchell Jacobson LAW ’76
Chairman
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc.

Boris Jordan  WSC '88
President and CEO
The Sputnik Group

Charles Klein LAW ’63
Managing Director
American Securities

Richard Jay Kogan STERN ’68
Retired President & Chief
Executive Officer
Schering-Plough Corporation

Kenneth G. Langone STERN ’60
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Invemed Associates, LLC.

Martin Lipton LAW ’55
Partner
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Jeffrey H. Lynford
Co-Managing Member
Wellsford Strategic Partners LLC

Kelly Kennedy Mack  ** STERN '02
President
Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group

Donald B. Marron
Chairman, CEO, & Founder
Lightyear Capital

Howard Meyers  STERN '64
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Quexco Incorporated

Steven S. Miller  * LAW '70
Vice President/Assistant General Counsel
JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Constance J. Milstein Heights ’69
Principal & Co-Founder
Ogden CAP Properties, LLC

David C. Oxman
Senior Counsel
Davis Polk & Wardwell

John Paulson STERN '78
President
Paulson & Co., Inc.

Lester Pollack LAW ’57
Chairman & Founder
Centre Partners Management LLC

Catherine B. Reynolds
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation

Brett B. Rochkind ** STERN '98
Managing Director
General Atlantic LLC

Courtney Sale Ross
Founder and Chair, Ross School,
Ross Institute, Ross Global Academy

William C. Rudin STERN ’79
President
Rudin Management Company, Inc.

Suresh Sani ** LAW ’88
Vice President
First Pioneer Properties, Inc.

John Sexton
President
New York University

Constance Silver SSSW ’78, ’79
Victory Ventures Inc.

Lisa Silverstein SCPS ’88, ’89
Senior Vice President
Silverstein Properties, Inc.

Jay Stein
Chairman
Stein Mart, Inc.

Joseph S. Steinberg ARTS ’66
President & Director
Leucadia National Corporation

Judy Steinhardt

Michael H. Steinhardt
Managing Member
Steinhardt Management, Inc.

Chandrika Tandon     
Chairman
Tandon Capital Associates

Daniel R. Tisch
Partner
Mentor Partners

John L. Vogelstein
Senior Advisor
Warburg Pincus, LLC

Casey Wasserman
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Wasserman Media Group, LLC

Anthony Welters LAW ’77
Executive Vice President
UnitedHealth Group

Shelby White
Trustee
The Leon Levy Foundation

Leonard A. Wilf LAW ’77
President
Garden Homes, Inc.

Fred Wilson
Founder and Managing General Partner
Union Square Ventures

Charles Zegar  GSAS ' 77, '05
Founding Partner
Bloomberg, L.P.

Life Trustees

Diane Belfer
Philanthropist

Mamdouha Bobst
President
The Elmer & Mamdouha Bobst Foundation

John Brademas
President Emeritus
New York University

Geraldine H. Coles WSC ’38
Philanthropist

John J. Creedon STERN ’52, LAW ’55, ’62
Former President & Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
C.V. Starr and Co., Inc.

Henry Kaufman ARTS ’48, STERN ’58
President
Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.

Helen L. Kimmel

Thomas S. Murphy
Retired Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

L. Jay Oliva
President Emeritus
New York University

Herbert M. Paul STERN '56, LAW '61

President
Herbert Paul, P.C.

E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
Vice Chairman Emeritus
J.P. Morgan

William R. Salomon
Honorary Chairman
Citigroup

Marie Schwartz
President
Arnold and Marie Schwartz Fund for Education & Health Research

Larry A. Silverstein ARTS ’52
President & Chief Executive Officer
Silverstein Properties, Inc.

Joel E. Smilow
Chairman
Dinex Group, LLC

Sheldon H. Solow
President
Solow Building Company

Lillian Vernon
Founding Chairman
Lillian Vernon Corporation

Robert F. Wright STERN ’51
President & Chief Executive Officer
Robert F. Wright Associates, Inc.

William D. Zabel
Partner
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò

Trustee Associates

Bruce Berger STERN ’66
President
Sutton Group Services, Inc.

Leonard Boxer STERN ’60, LAW ’63
Chairman, Real Estate Department
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

Jane Eisner Bram WSC ’58, SSSW ’79, ’00
Psychotherapist

Betty Weinberg Ellerin WSC ’50, LAW ’52
Senior Counsel
Alston & Bird, LLP

Norman Goodman * ARTS ’47, LAW ’50
County Clerk
Commissioner of Jurors
New York County

Marvin Leffler STERN ’42, ’51
President
Town Hall Foundation

* Alumni Trustee
** Young Alumni Trustee