Committee on General Scholarships

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.

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