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Graham School Board & Advisors
Advisors to the University of Chicago Graham School include accomplished scholars, alumni, and leaders from across disciplines and industries. These advisors share a commitment to lifelong liberal arts education and an eagerness to use their talents to advance the School’s mission. Advisors generously invest their time, wisdom, and philanthropy to guide the School’s strategy and program offerings.
Graham Faculty Board
The Faculty Board is comprised of interdisciplinary faculty from across the Schools and Divisions of the University of Chicago who review and advise the key strategies and programs of the Graham School.
Jason Bridges
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Maureen Coleman
Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences
Don Coursey
Ameritech Professor of Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy
Gina Fedock
Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Robert H. Gertner
Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance, Booth School of Business
Ghenwa Hayek
Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature
Faith Hillis
Professor of Russian History and the College
Peggy Mason
Professor of Neurobiology
Carolin Pflueger
Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Kenneth Warren
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English and Literature
David Wray
Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, Classics, and The College
Graham Council
The Graham Council is comprised of distinguished leaders who are deeply committed to the School’s mission and who help to advise and advance the School’s strategies.
Scott M. Anderson
Chief Investment Officer, North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office
Cliff Barber
Partner, Chicago Rises
Kate Bensen
Experienced CEO & Board Member
Stephen Blewitt
Co-Founder and Manager, Youth.Work.Connect.
Lara Druyan
General Partner, Private Liquidity Partners and Venture Partner, Silicon Valley Data Capital
Janet Foutty
Senior Advisor, Board Member, Author; Former Chair, Deloitte & Former CEO, Deloitte Consulting
Leon Greenfield
Partner, WilmerHale
Craig Hunegs
Fellow, Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative
Kartik Jayaram
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Roberta Lee
CER’22 (Basic Program), Civic Leader
Jennifer A. Lind
Open Enrollment Instructor
Tom Manning
Executive Chairman, Cresco Labs
Dave Mark
Retired Finance Executive
Erin McInerney
Retired EVP and CMO, LaSalle Bank Corporation
Rosemarie Mitchell
Retired CEO of ABS Associates, Convocation Alumni Speaker
Margaret Mueller
Managing Director and Chief Growth Officer, Tilia Holdings
Christopher Noon
Principal and Founder, Quadrangle Development Company
Sheila Penrose
President, S.A. Penrose Advisors, LLC
Don Phillips
AM’86, CER’17 (Basic Program), Managing Director, Morningstar
Kevin Russell
CER’16 (Basic Program), Retired Partner, Latham & Watkins
Barbara Stewart
Former Chief Executive Officer, AmeriCorps
Rishad Tobaccowala
Author & Senior Advisor, Publicis Groupe
Mark Tresnowski
Senior Advisor, Former Managing Director & General Counsel, Madison Dearborn Partners
Betty Vandenbosch
Director, Adtalem Global Education
Alec Wang
Founder & President, Tana Investment Group
Michael Werner
Founder & CEO, HomeX
Melisa Wilson
Managing Director and Banker (Retired)
David Yamada
CER ’24 (Basic Program) and Law Professor
Leadership & Society Initiative Advisors
Our Leadership and Society Initiative benefits from the ongoing guidance and support of advisors who work at the forefront of a variety of industries and at the vanguard of societal impact.
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies; Director, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Beth Brooke
Board Director at The New York Times (NYSE:NYT), eHealth (EHTH), US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and SHEEX
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Robert Chaskin
McCormick Foundation Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Junhong Chen
Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Lead Water Strategist at Argonne National Laboratory
Gerald Chertavian
Founder & CEO, Year Up
Elisabeth Clemens
William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Kate Markin Coleman
Principal & Founder, IAS Advising LLC
Evelyn Diaz
Former President, Heartland Alliance
Derek Douglas
President, Civic Committee and the Commercial Club of Chicago
Oeindrila Dube
Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies
Vicki Escarra
Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group
Ricardo Estrada
President & CEO, Metropolitan Family Services
Jonathan F. Fanton
President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Laura Gagliardi
Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Sampriti Ganguli
Senior Advisor, Arabella Advisors
Susan Gianinno
Senior Advisor, Publicis Group
Tom Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science
Rodney L. Goldstein
Co-Managing Partner, Wealth Strategist Partners
John Hewko
General Secretary and CEO, Rotary International
Tony Hunter
Chairman and CEO, McClatchy
Suneel Kamlani
Chairman of the Board, MUFG Securities Americas Inc.
Maria Kim
President & CEO, REDF
Michael Klowden
Executive Vice Chairman, Milken Institute
Matt Knott
President & Chief Operating Officer, Builders Vision
Edward W. Kolb
Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Connie L. Lindsey
Former Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Northern Trust
Jens Ludwig
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Tom Manning
Executive Chairman, Cresco Labs
Walter E. Massey
Board Chair, Giant Magellan Telescope Organization
Dorri McWhorter
President & CEO, YMCA
Doriane Miller
Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for Community Health and Vitality
Luis Miranda
Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder, Indian School of Public Policy
Anne Mulcahy
Former Chair and CEO, Xerox Corporation
Kenneth Polonsky
President, UChicago Medicine health system, Executive Vice President of the University for Biology and Medicine, Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine
Diana Mendley Rauner
President of Start Early
Sunil Sanghvi
Senior Partner Emeritus & Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Eric Schurenberg
Former Editor-in-chief and CEO, Inc. and Fast Company
Barbara Stewart
Former Chief Executive Officer, AmeriCorps
Michael Strautmanis
Executive Vice President, Obama Foundation
Dana Suskind
Founder and Co-Director of TMW Center for Early Learning, Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program Public Health, Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Public Policy
Lynn Taliento
Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Rishad Tobaccowala
Author & Senior Advisor, Publicis Groupe
Linda Waite
George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology
Kenneth Warren
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English and Literature
Gregory W. Wendt
Partner, Capital Groups
Laurie Zoloth
Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics; also in the College; The Program in Jewish Studies; and the MacLean Center for Biomedical Ethics at the Pritzker School of Medicine
Andrea Zopp
Managing Partner, Cleveland Avenue
Master of Liberal Arts Student & Alumni Advisory Committee
Our Master of Liberal Arts program benefits from an advisory committee comprised of students and alumni who are committed to strengthening liberal arts education.
Daniel Bruetman, Md, Mmm
Medical Oncologist
Beth Coronelli
Principal, Coronelli Advisors
Heather Gardner
Financial Institutions Relationship Manager, Trustee, and Board Leader
Mark Heaney
CEO, Magnet Health
Omer Imtiaz
Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Salesforce
Alvaro Iriarte
Content Director, Instituto Res Publica (Chile)
Susan Nedza Lastres
Principal, SMN Health Policy Insights
Linda Levin
Architect
Dave Mark
Retired Finance Executive
Sarah Hope Marshall
Founder, Profound Hope Industries
Kelly Martin
Retired Partner, William Blair & Company, L.L.C.
Patrick O’Meara
Chairman, Ann Arbor Acquisition Corp.
Sharath Raja
Former Managing Partner & President, Retina and Vitreous Consultants
John Read
Retired Trial Lawyer, Art Museum Docent and Navy Veteran
Robert Riva
Partner, CRE Finance Group, Cole Schotz, P.C. Founding Partner, Telos Educational
William Roth
Former President and Chief Operating Officer, SCAN Health Plan
Sarah Sapperstein
Manager of Strategic Donor Services, Chicago Community Trust
Audra Sjaardema (Hall)
Options Trader
Louise Smith
Management Consultant & Civic Leader
Dia S. Weil
Retired Technology Executive and Board Leader
Matthew Wolski
Attorney, Technologist, and Oxford Comma Enthusiast
Evonne Yonover
Civic Leader
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Graham School Board & Advisors
Advisors to the University of Chicago Graham School include accomplished scholars, alumni, and leaders from across disciplines and industries. These advisors share a commitment to lifelong liberal arts education and an eagerness to use their talents to advance the School’s mission. Advisors generously invest their time, wisdom, and philanthropy to guide the School’s strategy and program offerings.
Graham Faculty Board
The Faculty Board is comprised of interdisciplinary faculty from across the Schools and Divisions of the University of Chicago who review and advise the key strategies and programs of the Graham School.
Jason Bridges
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Maureen Coleman
Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences
Don Coursey
Ameritech Professor of Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy
Gina Fedock
Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Robert H. Gertner
Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance, Booth School of Business
Ghenwa Hayek
Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature
Faith Hillis
Professor of Russian History and the College
Peggy Mason
Professor of Neurobiology
Carolin Pflueger
Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Kenneth Warren
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English and Literature
David Wray
Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, Classics, and The College
Graham Council
The Graham Council is comprised of distinguished leaders who are deeply committed to the School’s mission and who help to advise and advance the School’s strategies.
Scott M. Anderson
Chief Investment Officer, North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office
Cliff Barber
Partner, Chicago Rises
Kate Bensen
Experienced CEO & Board Member
Stephen Blewitt
Co-Founder and Manager, Youth.Work.Connect.
Lara Druyan
General Partner, Private Liquidity Partners and Venture Partner, Silicon Valley Data Capital
Janet Foutty
Senior Advisor, Board Member, Author; Former Chair, Deloitte & Former CEO, Deloitte Consulting
Leon Greenfield
Partner, WilmerHale
Craig Hunegs
Fellow, Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative
Kartik Jayaram
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Roberta Lee
CER’22 (Basic Program), Civic Leader
Jennifer A. Lind
Open Enrollment Instructor
Tom Manning
Executive Chairman, Cresco Labs
Dave Mark
Retired Finance Executive
Erin McInerney
Retired EVP and CMO, LaSalle Bank Corporation
Rosemarie Mitchell
Retired CEO of ABS Associates, Convocation Alumni Speaker
Margaret Mueller
Managing Director and Chief Growth Officer, Tilia Holdings
Christopher Noon
Principal and Founder, Quadrangle Development Company
Sheila Penrose
President, S.A. Penrose Advisors, LLC
Don Phillips
AM’86, CER’17 (Basic Program), Managing Director, Morningstar
Kevin Russell
CER’16 (Basic Program), Retired Partner, Latham & Watkins
Barbara Stewart
Former Chief Executive Officer, AmeriCorps
Rishad Tobaccowala
Author & Senior Advisor, Publicis Groupe
Mark Tresnowski
Senior Advisor, Former Managing Director & General Counsel, Madison Dearborn Partners
Betty Vandenbosch
Director, Adtalem Global Education
Alec Wang
Founder & President, Tana Investment Group
Michael Werner
Founder & CEO, HomeX
Melisa Wilson
Managing Director and Banker (Retired)
David Yamada
CER ’24 (Basic Program) and Law Professor
Leadership & Society Initiative Advisors
Our Leadership and Society Initiative benefits from the ongoing guidance and support of advisors who work at the forefront of a variety of industries and at the vanguard of societal impact.
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies; Director, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Beth Brooke
Board Director at The New York Times (NYSE:NYT), eHealth (EHTH), US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and SHEEX
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Robert Chaskin
McCormick Foundation Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Junhong Chen
Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Lead Water Strategist at Argonne National Laboratory
Gerald Chertavian
Founder & CEO, Year Up
Elisabeth Clemens
William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Kate Markin Coleman
Principal & Founder, IAS Advising LLC
Evelyn Diaz
Former President, Heartland Alliance
Derek Douglas
President, Civic Committee and the Commercial Club of Chicago
Oeindrila Dube
Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies
Vicki Escarra
Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group
Ricardo Estrada
President & CEO, Metropolitan Family Services
Jonathan F. Fanton
President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Laura Gagliardi
Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Sampriti Ganguli
Senior Advisor, Arabella Advisors
Susan Gianinno
Senior Advisor, Publicis Group
Tom Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science
Rodney L. Goldstein
Co-Managing Partner, Wealth Strategist Partners
John Hewko
General Secretary and CEO, Rotary International
Tony Hunter
Chairman and CEO, McClatchy
Suneel Kamlani
Chairman of the Board, MUFG Securities Americas Inc.
Maria Kim
President & CEO, REDF
Michael Klowden
Executive Vice Chairman, Milken Institute
Matt Knott
President & Chief Operating Officer, Builders Vision
Edward W. Kolb
Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Connie L. Lindsey
Former Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Northern Trust
Jens Ludwig
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Tom Manning
Executive Chairman, Cresco Labs
Walter E. Massey
Board Chair, Giant Magellan Telescope Organization
Dorri McWhorter
President & CEO, YMCA
Doriane Miller
Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for Community Health and Vitality
Luis Miranda
Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder, Indian School of Public Policy
Anne Mulcahy
Former Chair and CEO, Xerox Corporation
Kenneth Polonsky
President, UChicago Medicine health system, Executive Vice President of the University for Biology and Medicine, Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine
Diana Mendley Rauner
President of Start Early
Sunil Sanghvi
Senior Partner Emeritus & Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Eric Schurenberg
Former Editor-in-chief and CEO, Inc. and Fast Company
Barbara Stewart
Former Chief Executive Officer, AmeriCorps
Michael Strautmanis
Executive Vice President, Obama Foundation
Dana Suskind
Founder and Co-Director of TMW Center for Early Learning, Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program Public Health, Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Public Policy
Lynn Taliento
Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Rishad Tobaccowala
Author & Senior Advisor, Publicis Groupe
Linda Waite
George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology
Kenneth Warren
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English and Literature
Gregory W. Wendt
Partner, Capital Groups
Laurie Zoloth
Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics; also in the College; The Program in Jewish Studies; and the MacLean Center for Biomedical Ethics at the Pritzker School of Medicine
Andrea Zopp
Managing Partner, Cleveland Avenue
Master of Liberal Arts Student & Alumni Advisory Committee
Our Master of Liberal Arts program benefits from an advisory committee comprised of students and alumni who are committed to strengthening liberal arts education.
Daniel Bruetman, Md, Mmm
Medical Oncologist
Beth Coronelli
Principal, Coronelli Advisors
Heather Gardner
Financial Institutions Relationship Manager, Trustee, and Board Leader
Mark Heaney
CEO, Magnet Health
Omer Imtiaz
Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Salesforce
Alvaro Iriarte
Content Director, Instituto Res Publica (Chile)
Susan Nedza Lastres
Principal, SMN Health Policy Insights
Linda Levin
Architect
Dave Mark
Retired Finance Executive
Sarah Hope Marshall
Founder, Profound Hope Industries
Kelly Martin
Retired Partner, William Blair & Company, L.L.C.
Patrick O’Meara
Chairman, Ann Arbor Acquisition Corp.
Sharath Raja
Former Managing Partner & President, Retina and Vitreous Consultants
John Read
Retired Trial Lawyer, Art Museum Docent and Navy Veteran
Robert Riva
Partner, CRE Finance Group, Cole Schotz, P.C. Founding Partner, Telos Educational
William Roth
Former President and Chief Operating Officer, SCAN Health Plan
Sarah Sapperstein
Manager of Strategic Donor Services, Chicago Community Trust
Audra Sjaardema (Hall)
Options Trader
Louise Smith
Management Consultant & Civic Leader
Dia S. Weil
Retired Technology Executive and Board Leader
Matthew Wolski
Attorney, Technologist, and Oxford Comma Enthusiast
Evonne Yonover
Civic Leader
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