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Alan M.  Garber

Alan M. Garber

Provost

Provost Alan M. Garber serves as Harvard University’s chief academic officer.  He is also the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Economics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  An economist and physician, he studies methods for improving health care productivity and health care financing.

As Provost, Dr. Garber oversees academic activities throughout the university, with direct responsibility for inter-school initiatives, faculty development, research policy, international affairs, and advances in learning.  The Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Library, Harvard University Health Services, HarvardX, the American Repertory Theater, and the Arnold Arboretum are among the organizations reporting to the Provost.

Before becoming Provost at Harvard in 2011, Dr. Garber was the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor and a Professor of Medicine, as well as a Professor of Economics, Health Research and Policy, and Economics in the Graduate School of Business (by courtesy) at Stanford University. At Stanford, he founded and directed the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, and served as a Staff Physician at the Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.

Dr. Garber is an Elected Member of the Association of American Physicians, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is also an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Garber received a PhD in Economics from Harvard and an MD with research honors from Stanford.

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Drew Allen

Associate Provost for Institutional Research and Analytics
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Drew has 15 years of experience using data and analysis to support strategic planning in higher education settings. He comes to Harvard from Georgetown University, where he served as Associate Vice President for Institutional Data Analytics since 2020. Prior to that, he worked in a variety of roles related to data analysis and operations at Princeton University, including as Executive Director for the Data-Driven Social Science Initiative. From 2008-2015, he worked at the City University of New York (CUNY) in roles focusing on research and evaluation, including as Founding Director of its Office of Research, Evaluation and Program Support. Drew holds a Ph.D. in Higher and Postsecondary Education from New York University, an M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Arkansas.

Assisted by: Michelle Rossman, michelle_rossman@harvard.edu

Bharat Anand

Bharat N. Anand

Vice Provost for Advances in Learning
Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration

Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, digital marketing, and corporate strategy. His work has examined competition in content industries, focusing on two central challenges that firms increasingly face: getting noticed and getting paid. He created Harvard Business School’s first executive program on digital strategies for media companies. He has written over sixty articles and case studies, and his scholarly work has received various awards and been profiled in a range of media outlets. His work on digital transformation has influenced startups and established companies worldwide, and he has advised organizations across the globe.

His book The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change has received acclaim for its perspective on strategy and digital transformation. It was named as one of Fast Company’s top ten business books of 2016 and Bloomberg’s “Best Books of 2017.”

In 2014, Professor Anand helped create and launch the digital learning platforms for Harvard Business School Online and was its first Senior Associate Dean. HBSO’s virtual classroom has been described by Fortune as the “Classroom of the Future.” In his current role as Vice Provost, he has led Harvard University’s efforts to formulate, communicate, and implement strategic priorities around online learning and residential teaching across the University. Professor Anand was part of Harvard’s central leadership team to support and oversee the University’s transition to remote teaching during the pandemic and more recently chaired a university-wide task force that crafted a strategic roadmap for teaching and learning for Harvard University.

Professor Anand is a renowned teacher and a two‐time winner of the “best teacher award” at Harvard Business School. He is a two-time recipient of the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School. He received his B.A. in economics from Harvard College magna cum laude, and his PhD in economics from Princeton University.

Assisted by: Tonya Hughes, tonya_hughes@harvard.edu

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Sara N. Bleich

Vice Provost for Special Projects

Dr. Sara Bleich is the inaugural Vice Provost for Special Projects at Harvard University, director of the social sciences program and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. With more than 180 peer-reviewed publications, she is a policy expert and researcher who specializes in diet-related diseases, food insecurity, and racial inequality. Prior to this, Dr. Bleich served in the Biden Administration as the Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service and as the Senior Advisor for COVID-19 in the Office of the Secretary at USDA. As a White House Fellow during the Obama Administration, she worked at USDA as a Senior Policy Adviser for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services and on First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative. Dr. Bleich was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 and holds a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and a PhD in health policy from Harvard University.

 

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Rick Calixto

Executive Director of the Harvard Trademark Program

Mr. Calixto oversees the office responsible for protecting and licensing Harvard’s trademarks throughout the world. Under Mr. Calixto’s guidance, the office also assists Harvard schools, departments and other University units with trademark related issues and provides advice concerning the University policies governing the proper use of the Harvard name and trademarks.

Assisted by: Gary Cahill, 617.496.8755, gary_cahill@harvard.edu

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Tez "Bank" Chantaruchirakorn

Assistant Provost and Chief of Staff

Bank is the Assistant Provost and Chief of Staff.  He manages the daily and long-term activities of the Provost’s Office, advances the Provost’s agenda and priorities, and facilitates coordination and communication among the University’s senior administrators.  He previously served as lead staff to the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging and held roles in the Harvard College Program in General Education and FAS Development.  Prior to Harvard, Bank worked for the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and as an admissions officer at UCLA, his alma mater.  He holds a Ed.M. in Higher Education from Harvard and a B.A.S. in Mathematics/Economics and Psychology from UCLA.

Assisted by: Josette McWilliams, josette_mcwilliams@harvard.edu

Mark Elliott

Mark C. Elliott

Vice Provost for International Affairs
Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History

Mark Elliott is Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 

As Vice Provost, Elliott oversees and works to advance international academic initiatives, extending the global reach of Harvard’s research and teaching activities. In this capacity, Elliott serves as the University’s representative in negotiating agreements with foreign governments, receiving senior-level international delegations, and representing Harvard to peer institutions and alumni worldwide. In addition, he shares responsibility for supporting the community of international students, scholars, and faculty in Cambridge and Boston, as well as for guiding Harvard’s overall global strategy and sustaining its ongoing development as a global university.

Elliott is an authority on the last four centuries of Chinese history, in particular the Qing period (1636-1911). His research encompasses the history of relations between China and its nomadic frontier, with special attention to questions of ethnicity and empire. His first book, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China, is a pioneering study in the “New Qing History,” an approach emphasizing the imprint of Inner Asian traditions upon China’s last imperial state. He is also the author of Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World, and has published more than twenty-five scholarly articles. He serves on numerous editorial boards, and was for three years the director of the Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies.

A graduate of Yale (BA 1981 summa cum laude, MA 1984), Elliott earned his PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the University of Michigan before coming to Harvard in 2003. 

Assisted by: Emily Albrecht, emily_albrecht@harvard.edu

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Robin Glover

Associate Provost for Student Affairs

Robin Glover is the University's first Associate Provost for Student Affairs.  In this new role, Robin serves as the lead person in the Provost’s Office on matters involving student affairs, promoting and facilitating coordination and information sharing among our Schools that will lead to better support for our diverse student body.  She partners with colleagues on the Council of Deans of Students to assess student needs and develop strategies for addressing issues that impact students across the University.  Along with Harvard University Health Services, she will play a key role in promoting student mental health and well-being, including the implementation of recommendations from the Task Force on Managing Student Mental Health.  She also works closely with the Office for Labor and Employee Relations to oversee the University collective bargaining agreement with the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers.

Robin previously served as Associate Dean for Student Services at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  She directed a portfolio of student services including admissions, financial aid, the registrar’s office, career services, and student affairs.  Among her many accomplishments, she was instrumental in forming working groups to address student requests.

Before joining Harvard in 2019, Robin spent 22 years at Tufts in progressively more responsible roles, most recently as Associate Dean of the Tufts School of Medicine’s Office of Public Health and Professional Degree Programs.  She is a graduate of Northeastern University where she earned her Bachelor’s degree and MBA.

Assisted by: Michelle Rossman, michelle_rossman@harvard.edu

Lori E. Gross

Lori E. Gross

Associate Provost for Arts and Culture

Lori E. Gross has been Associate Provost for Arts and Culture at Harvard University since July 2008 focusing on the university-wide arts agenda. In this role, she works with the Harvard Art Museums, the American Repertory Theater, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Harvard University Press, Villa I Tatti, and the Arnold Arboretum, on issues ranging from day-to-day operational matters to strategic planning. She works with the Office for the Arts, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Harvard University Native American Program, the Graduate School of Design, the Harvard Divinity School, and the Division of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts Sciences on cross-university issues and initiatives involving the arts and humanities.  Gross is a member of the Harvard University Committee on the Arts, the Board of Trustees of the American Repertory Theater, the Film Study Center Advisory Committee, and the Executive Board of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.

Gross previously served as Director of Arts Initiatives and Advisor to the Associate Provost for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where her principal responsibilities included strategic planning, communications policy and implementation, resource development, and facilities planning. Prior to her career in academia, Gross held a variety of posts in museums at a number of institutions internationally, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Canadian Center for Architecture and worked with numerous cultural institutions in Spain.  As the Founding Director of the Museum Loan Network (MLN) from its establishment in 1995 through 2007 she facilitated the long-term loan of objects of cultural heritage and encouraged interdisciplinary collaborations among U.S. institutions enabling them to better serve their communities.

Assisted by: Kathleen Schoer, 617.496.3565, kathleen_schoer@harvard.edu

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Patricia Harrington

Patricia Harrington

Managing Director

As Managing Director for the Office of the President and Provost (OPP), Patricia is responsible for supporting the President, Provost, and Executive Vice President in pursuing OPP’s finance, administration, and academic planning objectives.

Patricia joined OPP in 2011, and oversees finance and administration for all organizations under the umbrella of the Office of the President and Provost, a portfolio encompassing departments, allied and affiliate organizations, as well as central and school-based initiatives.  Patricia leads a team of eight and her office provides the full range of financial and administrative services.

As part of the senior management team, Patricia directs the strategy and implementation of financial and organizational plans across all functions, ensuring compliance with university financial and human resources polices.  The office is also responsible for the operation of buildings and spaces. Patricia oversees the execution of a vast number of complex financial agreements across the University and works closely with the leadership to organize and deploy the President’s discretionary funds.  Patricia provides financial advice to multiple affiliated agencies and works directly with their leadership and boards on financial planning and sustainability.  Patricia is also the supervisor of the Board for the Harvard Center in Shanghai.  

Prior to joining OPP, Patricia served as Associate Dean of Harvard College for Finance and Administration at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and as the Endowment Manager at Harvard Medical School.  She received both her B.S. in biology and her MBA in Finance from the State University of New York in Albany.  She is a native French speaker.

Assisted by: Tim Healey, 617.496.9283, timothy_healey@harvard.edu

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Isaac Kohlberg

Senior Associate Provost, Chief Technology Development Officer

Mr. Kohlberg, formerly Chief Executive Officer of the Tel Aviv University Economic Corporation and CEO of its technology transfer organization, oversees the development of new inventions and technologies arising from research at Harvard. The Office of Technology Development (OTD) elicits and evaluates new inventions and discoveries made by the faculty, and determines whether to pursue patent protection on behalf of the University. In keeping with Harvard's mission to serve the public good, OTD strives to make these new technologies widely available to society by transferring them to industry for development and real world application. Companies seek to acquire rights to promising new inventions made at Harvard in order to develop them into new products, such as biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and advanced research materials which, it is hoped, will one day be available on the market, thereby contributing to society through the advancement of science, medicine and industry. Licenses include a financial consideration for the University which, in turn, helps support the expense of patenting future inventions, as well as of ongoing research and academic endeavors at Harvard. Thus, OTD serves to protect new discoveries made by Harvards research enterprise while simultaneously helping to make additional research possible, often resulting in direct or indirect benefit to the public at large.

Assisted by: Sarah James, 617.384.7441, sarah_james@harvard.edu

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Nicole Merhill, J.D.

Nicole Merhill, J.D.

University Title IX Coordinator
Director of the Office for Gender Equity

Nicole is the University Title IX Coordinator and the Director for the new Office for Gender Equity. In her role, Nicole oversees Harvard’s overall Title IX system, including direct support and consultation to the University’s 50+ Title IX Resource Coordinators, development and implementation of education programming and prevention efforts, and direct support to community members.... Read more about Nicole Merhill, J.D.

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Peggy Newell

Peggy Newell

Deputy Provost

Peggy Newell joined Harvard’s Office of the President and Provost in November 2012 as Deputy Provost. She is responsible for strategic and tactical planning and management of all provost area activities, as well as advising the Provost on a wide array of administrative matters requiring executive decision-making.  She works closely with the University Development Office to assure that academic priorities drive fundraising. With the Executive Vice President, she works to plan for development of space for academic expansion in Allston. She created and directs the Provost’s Academic Leadership Forum, a program that helps to develop leadership potential in faculty members selected from across Harvard’s schools.  

In addition, Peggy oversees the Office for Gender Equity, the Office for Dispute Resolution, the budgets and financial management of all Provost’s offices and activities, the Committee on General Scholarships, and the Associate Provosts for Arts and Culture, Institutional Research, and Student Affairs. She works closely with the Harvard Library, serves as co-chair of the University Risk Management Committee and is a member of the Harvard University Information Security Oversight Committee and the Electronic Communications Policy Oversight Committee. She represented Harvard on the Executive Committee of HUBWeek, a collaboration led by Harvard, MIT, MGH, and the Boston Globe to promote and celebrate Boston as an innovation hub.  During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she launched and supervised the Harvard University Clinical Laboratory.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Peggy held a variety of positions over a thirty-year career at Tufts University, most recently serving as Provost ad interim, Vice Provost, and Associate Provost for Research. Before joining the Provost's Office at Tufts, she was Associate Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Associate Dean for Special Programs at Tufts University School of Medicine. 

Peggy earned her BA from Boston College, her MBA from the Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Management, and her JD from Suffolk University. She was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in December 1993.

Assisted by: Stephanie Cruikshank, 617.496.7006, stephanie_cruikshank@harvard.edu

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Nicole  Newman, J.D.

Nicole Newman, J.D.

Director of the Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR)
Nicole supervises the ODR staff, oversees the investigative and resolution processes implemented by ODR Investigators, and provides extensive University-wide training. Nicole came to ODR in 2017 with over six years of experience in civil rights investigations,... Read more about Nicole Newman, J.D.
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Giang T. Nguyen

Associate Provost for Campus Health and Wellbeing
Executive Director of Harvard University Health Services
Henry K. Oliver Chair of Hygiene

Giang Nguyen, MD, MPH, MSCE is the Associate Provost for Campus Health and Wellbeing, the Executive Director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS), and the Henry K. Oliver Chair of Hygiene. He provides strategic vision and oversight for HUHS’s clinical and wellness services, public health initiatives, emergency preparedness, compliance and accreditation, health insurance plans, and immunization compliance programs.

Previously, Giang served as the Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania Student Health Service, the health center for the University’s 24,000 students. Trained in primary care medicine, public health, and clinical epidemiology, Dr. Nguyen was born in Vietnam and holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers/UMDNJ, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to entering the field of college health, Dr. Nguyen was Medical Director for the academic family medicine department at University of Pennsylvania. As a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, he taught and mentored medical students, family medicine residents, undergraduates and public health students. 

Giang’s research includes health equity, college health, community engagement, health communication, preventive care, Asian immigrant health, and LGBTQ health. His community engagement work has included outreach to Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees, health fairs and immunization clinics, cancer education workshops, advocacy, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ issues. He has served on numerous boards and advisory committees regionally and nationally, including the Board of Directors for the American College Health Association (ACHA). Dr. Nguyen has played a leadership role in Harvard University’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and he is a member of the national COVID-19 Task Force for ACHA.

Assisted by: Sara Keddy, skeddy@huhs.harvard.edu