Date:  Wednesday, July 2, 2014
To:     THE NYU COMMUNITY
From:  Martin Lipton, Chair, NYU Board of Trustees

 

Dear Fellow Members of the NYU Community,

I am pleased to share with you the names of the students, faculty, administrators, and trustees who will serve as the members of the NYU Presidential Search Committee, which will be chaired by William Berkley, Stern ’66, the Chair-designate of the Board of Trustees.

The Committee will begin its work in September and the Board hopes to name a new president prior to the end of 2015. Ellen Schall – the Martin Cherkasky Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Wagner School, the former dean of Wagner, and currently a Senior Presidential Fellow – will serve as coordinator of the search for the Board.

The Board has few responsibilities more important than the selection of a new president. I am fully confident that this group of women and men drawn from across the University community will – through their discernment, wisdom, good judgment, and dedication to NYU – successfully find us the right person to be our next president: a leader with a record of achievement who can build on what has been accomplished, sustain NYU’s drive for excellence, and further propel the University’s upward trajectory in the years to come. On behalf of the entire NYU community, I thank them for taking on this assignment.

As part of its work, the Search Committee will undertake active outreach to listen to the views of members of the University community. And, as many members of our community are among the most prominent people in their fields in higher learning, you may know of candidates you wish to nominate for consideration by the Search Committee; to submit the names of possible nominees, please contact the Committee at nyupresident.search.committee@nyu.edu.

Below, please find the roster of the Search Committee (a member of the recently established Full-Time Non-Tenure Track/Contract Faculty Council will be appointed in the near future).

 
NYU PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE

Kwame Anthony Appiah
(Faculty)
Professor of Philosophy, Law
Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Science
Faculty Council Senator, FAS

Phyllis Putter Barasch
(Trustee)
Stern Graduate School of Business ‘81
President, NYU Alumni Association

Maria Bartiromo
(Trustee)
Washington Square College ‘89
Anchor and Global Markets Editor
Fox Business Network

William R. Berkley, Chair
(Trustee)
Chair Elect, Board of Trustees
Stern School of Business ‘66
Chairman of the Board and CEO
W.R. Berkley Corporation

Heather Cannady
(Trustee)
College of Arts and Science ‘04
Manager, Lateral Recruiting
Ropes & Gray LLP

Evan R. Chesler
(Trustee)
College of Arts and Science ‘70
School of Law ‘75
Chairman
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Laurence D. Fink
(Trustee)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
BlackRock, Inc.

Robert I. Grossman
(Dean)
Dean, School of Medicine
Chief Executive Officer, NYU Hospitals Center

Kenneth G. Langone
(Trustee)
Chair, Board of Trustees, NYU Langone Medical Center
Stern School of Business ‘60
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Invemed Associates, LLC

Martin Lipton
(Trustee)
Chair, Board of Trustees
School of Law ‘55
Partner
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Kelly Kennedy Mack
(Trustee)
Stern School of Business ‘02
President
Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group

Ted Magder
(Faculty)
Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Immediate Past Chair, Faculty Senators Council
Member, Faculty Senators Council Executive Committee

Marella Martin
(Student)
Tisch School of the Arts
MA, Musical Theatre Writing ‘15
School Senator – Graduate

Ann Morning
(Faculty)
Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Arts and Science
Faculty Council Senator, FAS

Trevor Morrison
(Dean)
Dean, School of Law

Jules O’Connor
(Student)
College of Arts and Science
BA, Mathematics and Politics ‘15
Chair, Student Senators Council and the University Committee on Student Life

Constance Silver
(Trustee)
Silver School of Social Work ’78, ‘79

Rangarajan (Raghu) Sundaram
(Faculty)
Yamaichi Faculty Fellow and Professor of Finance
Stern School of Business
Chair, Faculty Senators Council

Chandrika Tandon
(Trustee)
Chairman
Tandon Capital Associates

Daniel R. Tisch
(Trustee)
Partner
Mentor Partners

David Vintinner
(Administrative Staff)
Senior Director, Institutional Research
FAS Fiscal and Administrative Affairs
Chair, Administrative Management Council

Anthony Welters
(Trustee)
Chair, Board of Trustees School of Law
School of Law ‘77
Executive Chairman, BlackIvy Group, LLC
Senior Advisor to the CEO, UnitedHealth Group

Shelby White
(Trustee)
Trustee
The Leon Levy Foundation