Leadership Team

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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.

 

Assisted by: Aleena Hill-DaCosta, aleena_hill-dacosta@harvard.edu

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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

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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

John Shaw

John H. Shaw

Vice Provost for Research
Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology
Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering

 

In his role as Vice Provost for Research, John H. Shaw works to support the research enterprise of the University, including its twelve schools, fifteen practicing hospitals, and roughly 30 initiatives, centers, and institutes that bring together faculty across campus and University partners. He helps to advance Harvard’s mission by enabling foundational and transformative research and developing core research support. In this role, John serves on Boards and various committees of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, the Ragon Institute, Landmark Bio, the Kempner Institute for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), and other programs that support life and physical science research and technology translation. His office also helps the University navigate the federal regulatory landscape for research funding received by Harvard (totaling nearly $1 billion annually) and associated compliance requirements.

John also serves as the Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology in the Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) Department, and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). He is a structural geologist and applied geophysicist who investigates the nature of faulting in the earth’s crust, with applications to earthquake science. His research is also focused on energy systems and carbon storage, and the environmental impacts of these activities. Shaw offers courses on these topics through FAS and SEAS.

 

John served as chair of the EPS Department for thirteen years, supporting faculty, affiliated scientists, students, and staff. Activities in this role included strategic planning, faculty hiring and evaluation; oversight of student academic programs; fiscal management and planning; research compliance; fundraising; alumni relations; diversity and inclusion initiatives; and oversight of lab renovations and building operations. John has served on several School- and University-level committees focused on professional conduct and research policy. He recently served as the Chair of the Board of the Southern California Earthquake Center, an international research organization involving more than 90 institutions with federal and private sector funding sources. He is also co-founder of Seismix Reservoir Management, LLC, a firm that helps to assess environmental hazards of energy-related operations for companies, regulatory groups, and others.

Assisted by: Lesli Howard, 617.384.9451, lesli_howard@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

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James H. Stock

Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy

James H. Stock is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research areas are empirical macroeconomics, monetary policy, econometric methods, and energy and environmental policy.  He has substantial experience in the field of energy and environmental policy and is a key figure in the University’s climate and sustainability efforts.

As Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, Jim leads the development of a coordinated University-wide strategy to address climate change, bringing greater focus, clarity, and visibility to Harvard’s extraordinary breadth of work on climate and sustainability. Partnering with faculty, researchers, students, and staff around the University, Jim marshals and amplifies our efforts to bridge disciplines and tackle the cross-cutting challenges presented by climate change.

He received a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Co-Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and is a coauthor of a leading introductory econometrics textbook and is a member of various professional boards. He previously served as Managing Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics from 1992-2003, as Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007-2009, as Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2009-2012, and as Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2013-2014.

Assisted by: Amy Sysyn, amy_sysyn@harvard.edu

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Martha Whitehead

Martha Whitehead

Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian
Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Martha Whitehead is Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian and Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In this role, Martha leads a library network of more than 25 libraries employing more than 800 staff. Martha joined Harvard University in June 2019 from Queen’s University, where she served most recently as Vice-Provost (Digital Planning) and University Librarian. She was appointed University Librarian in 2012. Prior to joining Queen’s University as Associate University Librarian in 2004, Martha held various positions at the University of British Columbia Library for 19 years, including head of its information services division from 1997 to 2004. Martha holds a BA in English and an MLS from the University of British Columbia.

As a library leader, Martha has worked to ensure that research libraries are deeply embedded in their teaching, learning and research communities, and that they are deeply engaged in developing an open, sustainable, global knowledge commons for the benefit of those communities and society as a whole. Martha has a long history of service, with active engagement in regional, national, and international initiatives to advance digital research infrastructure and open scholarly communications. She currently serves as chair of the Executive Board of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), an international association with 156 members and partners from around the world, chair of the Board of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, and co-chair of the US Repositories Network. In past roles, Martha has served as president of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), and chair of numerous groups: Canada’s National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) Steering Committee, CARL’s Policy Committee, CARL’s Open Repositories Working Group, the Executive Committee of the Ontario Council of University Libraries, and the Executive Committee of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. She served as a member of the Executive Committee of Canada’s Leadership Council on Digital Infrastructure, and the Programs and Quality Committee of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Martha played a lead role in the development of Portage, a research data management network launched in 2015 by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries in collaboration with other research stakeholders. In 2019, Martha was awarded the CARL Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship Award.

 

Assisted by: Anna Dunavin, 617.495.2403, anna_dunavin@harvard.edu

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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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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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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

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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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Judith D. Singer

Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
James Bryant Conant Professor of Education

Professor Singer, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education at Harvard University, was named Harvard’s Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity in July 2008. Working closely with the President and Provost, she is responsible for faculty development and diversity across the University, addressing the need for more systematic review and analysis of appointments, with an eye to ensuring greater excellence and diversity in faculty ranks. She serves as a key adviser in the ad hoc tenure process, chairs the Provost’s Review Committee on Faculty Appointments, and oversees the administration of funds designated to facilitate the appointment of outstanding scholars who increase the faculty’s diversity. Working closely with colleagues across the University, Singer oversees and guides institutional policies and transformation in all areas of faculty affairs, providing intellectual leadership and coordination across the Schools with the twin goals of increasing accountability and fostering measureable progress in important domains.

An internationally renowned statistician, Singer has written nearly 100 papers and three books primarily focused on the practice of multilevel modeling, survival analysis, and individual growth modeling in a broad array of disciplines including statistics, education, psychology, medicine, and public health. Singer has received numerous honors for her work, including a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and election to the National Academy of Education. Singer received her B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany in 1976. She has been at Harvard ever since, receiving her Ph.D. in Statistics in 1983. In 1984, she began her academic career as an Assistant Professor of Education and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988 and Professor in 1993.  She was named the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education in 2001. From 1999 to 2004 Singer served as academic dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and acting dean from 2001 to 2002. For further information, you may visit Professor Singer's faculty website.

Assisted by: Roba Khorshid, 617.495.9904, roba_khorshid@harvard.edu

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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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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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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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