Committee
The Presidential Search Committee (bios below), named in June 2008, includes members of the Board of Trustees and the Dartmouth faculty, as well as an undergraduate student and a former president of the Alumni Council. Al Mulley ’70, a trustee, was named chair of the committee in March 2008 by Ed Haldeman ’70, chair of the Board of Trustees. President Jim Wright announced in February 2008 that he would step down following Commencement in June 2009.
Members of the committee have been assigned related readings; have engaged in discussions with members of the Dartmouth community on challenges and opportunities for the next president, and have helped to develop “The Opportunity for Leadership at Dartmouth” document, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in September 2008. Members will continue to solicit recommendations and surface names, as they begin to engage in a dialogue with candidates.
Martha Johnson Beattie '76
Chair, Alumni Liaison Committee, Dartmouth College Alumni Council
A.B. Dartmouth College
Martha Beattie earned an A.B. magna cum laude from Dartmouth in 1976 as a mathematics major. She is the past president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council and has been active on the Class of 1976's executive committee and with alumni interviewing of prospective Dartmouth students. Along with her husband, Jim Beattie '76, she chaired the participation giving for her 30th reunion, setting a new record for the Dartmouth College Fund. A crew coach for more than 30 years, Beattie started her career teaching and coaching crew at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. After moving to Seattle in 1980, she coached Lakeside School girls to three crew National High School Championships in four years, and in 1983 and 1984 she was the Women's Junior National Team head coach. In 1985 she founded one of the first master's women's rowing programs in the country. In 2000, Beattie founded the Hanover High School boys' rowing program. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved in her children's schools and in her communities, serving on the board of The Northwest Children's Fund and the George Pocock Rowing Foundation, and as a part time coach with the Upper Valley Rowing Foundation and the New London Rowing Club. Martha and Jim Beattie are the parents of three children. Their son Sam graduated from Dartmouth in 2007, their daughter Nell is Dartmouth Class of 2009, and their daughter Sarah is Scripps Class of 2011 at the Claremont Colleges in California.
Molly Bode '09
President of Student Assembly, Dartmouth College
An undergraduate member of Dartmouth's Class of 2009, Molly Bode was elected Student Body President for the 2008-2009 academic year. During the election Bode expressed her dedication to improving the Dartmouth experience for all students, both inside and outside the classroom. She previously worked in Student Assembly both as the Student Life chair and as the Alumni Affairs chair. She studies biology and film, and in 2007 she studied French in Paris on a Dartmouth Foreign Study Program. Bode also serves as the Vice President of Kappa Delta Epsilon, a local sorority, and is a member of Panarchy Undergraduate Society. She is a member of the 2009 Class Council and of the Polocrosse Club team. Bode is an active member of the Dartmouth Outing Club, and has led freshman expeditions as a trip leader and worked as Safety Liaison for Lodj Croo, a group that welcomes newly enrolled students. Bode is spending the summer of 2008 studying organic chemistry at Harvard University. She has volunteered for Camp Kudzu, a camp for children with diabetes, and in 2006, she served as a medic for a team of cyclists with Type 1 diabetes during Race Across America. Bode was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.
Joyce DeLeo
Chair (beginning July 1), Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School
B.S. State University of New York at Albany
Ph.D. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Joyce DeLeo has been instrumental in developing and directing the Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, an interdisciplinary group with a mission to foster collaborative and interactive research and education in the neurosciences. She is also actively involved in the development of the recently established interdisciplinary graduate program, the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM). In 1991 DeLeo was appointed assistant professor of anesthesiology and pharmacology and toxicology and in 2003 she was promoted to professor. She was awarded the Irene Heinz Given Endowed Professor of Pharmacology in 2005. She was a member of the 2001-2002 Class of Fellows in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program. DeLeo completed much of her pre-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Martinsried, West Germany under a Fulbright scholarship, and she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University where she studied neonatal hypoxia and seizure susceptibility. DeLeo serves on numerous National Institutes of Health study sections, International grant review boards and editorial boards. She has published over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews and chapters. She is married to Mark Splaine, associate professor of medicine and community and family medicine at DMS, and they have two sons.
R. Bradford Evans '64
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
A.B. Dartmouth College
M.B.A. Columbia University
Dartmouth College Trustee, elected 2003
Brad Evans is a managing director of Morgan Stanley and a vice chairman of the firm’s Investment Banking Department. He is responsible for managing certain client relationships for the firm, as well as advising companies on significant strategic transactions. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1970, became a vice president in 1976, and was elected a managing director in 1979. During his career he has served as co-head of Morgan Stanley's Mergers and Acquisitions Department and has also been head of the firm’s European Investment Banking business, based in London. Evans has been an active alumnus of the College, serving on the executive committee of the Class of 1964, the Class of 1964 25th Reunion Gifts Committee, the Major Gifts Committee of the Dartmouth’s “Will to Excel” capital campaign of the 1990s, the Dartmouth College Fund Committee and the President’s Leadership Council. He is co-chair of the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience. He received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1964, majoring in Sociology. Following his graduation, he served four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 1970. Evans is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School.
Jose W. Fernandez '77
Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
A.B. Dartmouth College
J.D. Columbia Law School
Dartmouth College Trustee, elected 2002
Jose Fernandez is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins LLP and Global Co-Chair of the firm's Latin America practice. Fernandez has handled some of Latin America's most complex acquisitions for corporations and private equity firms and has advised on financings, privatizations, securities offerings, arbitrations and joint ventures. He also represents banks in loans and restructurings in a cross-section of industries including mining, energy and telecommunications. Fernandez was named one of the "World's Leading Lawyers" by Chambers Global for his M&A and corporate expertise, an "Expert" in International Financial Law Review's "Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers", and one of the "World's Leading Privatization Lawyers" by Euromoney Publications. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College and the Board of Directors of Accion International, the Council of the Americas, and the Middle East Institute, and is the founder and chairman of Teatrostagefest, an annual two-week festival of Latino and international theatre in New York City. He has been both chair of the American Bar Association's Inter-American Law Committee and chair of the Committee on Inter-American Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Fernandez is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Commissioner in the New York City Latin Media and Entertainment Commission. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 1977 with a major in History and received a J.D. degree from Columbia University in 1980.
Sydney Finkelstein
Steven Roth Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
B.Comm. Concordia University
M.Sc. London School of Economics
Ph.D. Columbia University
Sydney Finkelstein teaches courses on leadership and strategy and executive education at Tuck, and he serves as the faculty director of the flagship Tuck Executive Program. He has taught executive education courses at business schools throughout the U.S. and in Australia, England, Sweden, and Vietnam. Finkelstein has published 9 books and over 60 articles, including the number one bestseller in the U.S. and Japan, Why Smart Executives Fail. The book was featured prominently by the media, and was listed on Fortune magazine's list of Best Business Books. Finkelstein's awards include Finalist for the Academy of Management Executive Best Paper Award (2004), the McKinsey & Company Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize Honorable Mention (2002), the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Executive for his article "Leveraging Intellect" (1997), two Citations of Excellence from ANBAR, the world's leading guide to management journal literature (1997 & 1998), the Cenafoni Prize for research in Entrepreneurial Strategy (1991), and finalist for the A.T. Kearney award for the best research in strategic management (1988). He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He currently serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, and Strategic Organization. His Ph.D. from Columbia is in strategic management. He lives in Hanover with his wife Gloria and daughter Erica.
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
The Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography and Chair of the Department of English, Dartmouth College
B.A. Marlboro College
M.A. Simmons College
Ph.D. Stanford University
Gretchen Gerzina teaches courses on the novel, Victorian literature, African American literature, Black British literature, and biography. She has held two fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities, served as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to Great Britain, and has been selected by the Rhodes Trust and Oxford University to be the George Eastman Visiting Professor to Oxford in 2009-10, and a fellow at Balliol College. She is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter in Devon, England. She is the author of Black London: Life Before Emancipation, and she has published three books on Frances Hodgson Burnett: a biography, Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden, the Norton Critical Edition of The Secret Garden, and The Annotated Secret Garden, a lushly-illustrated and annotated edition of the perennial favorite. Her latest book is Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend. Gerzina is the first woman to chair the Dartmouth English department, and the first African American woman to chair an Ivy League English department. Gerzina is host of the nationally syndicated program "The Book Show," on which she interviews every week some of the finest writers working today. She is married to Anthony Gerzina, and they have two sons, Simon and Daniel.
Charles E. Haldeman Jr. '70
Chairman, Putnam Investment Management, LLC
A.B. Dartmouth College
M.B.A., J.D. Harvard University
Dartmouth College Trustee, elected 2004
Chair of the Board of Trustees, elected 2007
Ed Haldeman is Chairman of Putnam Investment Management, LLC. He has been a Trustee of the Putnam Funds since 2004 and President of the Funds since 2007. Prior to becoming Chairman, Haldeman served as President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2003 to June 2008, and as Co-Head of Putnam Investments’ Investment Division from 2002 to 2003. Haldeman has more than 30 years of investment experience. Prior to joining Putnam Investments in 2002, Haldeman held executive positions in the investment management industry. From 2000 to 2002, Haldeman served as Chief Executive Officer of Delaware Investments and from 1998 to 2000 as President and Chief Operating Officer of United Asset Management Corporation. Haldeman was also a partner and director of Cooke & Bieler, Inc., an investment management firm, from 1974 to 1998. Haldeman currently is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, and serves on the Tuck School of Business Board of Overseers, and the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Partners Healthcare. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar, a J.D. Cum Laude from Harvard Law School, and an A.B. Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College. Haldeman is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
Joseph J. Helble
Dean, Thayer School of Engineering, Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College
B.S. Lehigh University
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The twelfth dean of the Thayer School of Engineering, Joseph Helble is the author of over 100 publications in the areas of air pollution, aerosols, nanoscale ceramics, and air quality, and holds three U.S. patents related to nanoscale particle production. He has served on several Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board panels, and is presently on the editorial boards of two scientific journals. He was a recipient of a young faculty Career Award from the National Science Foundation, an outstanding young faculty award from the University of Connecticut School of Engineering, and the inaugural environmental faculty leadership award from the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining Dartmouth in 2005, Helble was the Roger Revelle Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), enabling him to spend an academic year addressing technology and environmental policy issues in the office of U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. From 1987 to 1995, he was a research scientist and manager at Physical Sciences Inc. in Andover, MA, specializing in environmental and energy technology development. In 1993, he also worked at U.S. EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. as a science and policy fellow of AAAS.
Pamela J. Joyner '79
Founding Partner, Avid Partners LLC
A.B. Dartmouth College
M.B.A. Harvard University
Dartmouth College Trustee, elected 2001
Pamela J. Joyner has more than 25 years of experience in the investment industry. She is the Managing Partner and Founder of Avid Partners, LLC. Joyner's expertise is advising investment managers and private investment groups in developing and implementing investment strategies in the alternative investment arena. Her primary focus is assisting established investment management firms in the diversification, product positioning and global distribution of their investment program. Prior to founding Avid Partners in 2000, Joyner was a Partner at Bowman Capital Management, LLC and a Senior Executive at Capital Guardian Trust Company. Joyner's other investment history includes positions at Fidelity Management Trust Company, Kidder Peabody and Merrill Lynch. Joyner is currently a Trustee of Dartmouth College and is Chair of the Investment Committee. Additionally, she serves on the Finance and Student Affairs Committees as well as the boards of the Hopkins Center and the Hood Museum. She has served as a Director of The Sharper Image Corporation and First Republic Bank. Joyner's community involvements include serving as a co-chair of the San Francisco Ballet. She is a Trustee of the School of American Ballet, The McDowell Colony and the Making Waves Foundation. Joyner is also a Director of the California Health Care Foundation where she chairs the Investment Committee. She received an A.B. and an honorary A.M. degree from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
Jane Lipson
The Albert W. Smith Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. University of Toronto
Jane Lipson has served on the Dartmouth faculty since 1987. After earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemistry at the University of Toronto, she spent two years at Dartmouth as a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Fellow. As a professor she collaborates with undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows in her research group, as well as with scientists at other institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. General and physical chemistry are the topics of her undergraduate courses, while her graduate courses focus on the physical chemistry of macromolecules. Lipson's research, which is based at the interface between experiment and theory, focuses on the behavior of complex fluids and their mixtures, with a particular interest in polymers. She has received the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, from the Dreyfus Foundation, the Arthur K. Doolittle Award, from the American Chemical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She is currently serving as Chair of the Polymer Physics Gordon Conference, and she is the first woman to hold the position in the 40-year history of the conference. Lipson has also recently become an Associate Editor for the American Chemical Society journal Macromolecules, the most highly cited journal in the polymer field.
Stephen F. Mandel Jr. '78
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Lone Pine Capital LLC
A.B. Dartmouth College
M.B.A. Harvard University
Dartmouth College Trustee, elected 2007
Steve Mandel is the founder of Lone Pine Capital (LPC), a long/short and long-only equity money manager which he started in 1997. Prior to founding LPC, Mandel was managing director and consumer analyst at Tiger Management Corporation (1990 to 1997), mass-market retailing analyst at Goldman Sachs (1984 to 1990) and consultant at Mars and Company (1982 to 1984). Mandel graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy (1974), Dartmouth College (1978) and Harvard Business School (1982). He is a trustee of Teach for America and a former trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and The Children's School. He is also a founder and board member of the Lone Pine Foundation, whose mission is to help children and families in the greater New York City area. Mandel and his wife Sue live in Greenwich, Connecticut and have three children.
Albert G. Mulley Jr. '70
Chief, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
A.B. Dartmouth College
M.P.P., M.D. Harvard University
Dartmouth College Trustee, elected 2005
Albert Mulley is Chief of the General Medicine Division and Director of the Medical Practices Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School. During more than 30 years at MGH and Harvard he has developed innovative approaches to patient care, medical education, and clinical research. Mulley's research has focused on the use of decision theory to support clinicians and patients in their decision-making roles. This work has influenced the agendas of many public and private organizations. He has also served on multiple committees of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, of professional societies, and as a visiting professor and health policy consultant to governments and health care institutions in North America, Europe and Asia. For the past decade, he has returned each year to the same five mountain villages in Honduras to deliver primary medical care. Mulley is a founding director of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making which supports an international collaboration of clinical investigators committed to improving the quality of decisions made in the medical care of individuals and the health care for populations. He graduated from Dartmouth Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned M.D. and M.P.P. degrees at Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government before doing his clinical training at MGH. Mulley has been an overseer of Dartmouth Medical School since 1998. He is married to Margaret Mulley, a partner at Deloitte, and they have two children, Katherine, a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2005, and Alexander, who graduated from the Tuck School of Business in 2008.
Peter M. Robinson '79
Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
A.B. Dartmouth College
B.A. Oxford University
M.B.A. Stanford University
Dartmouth College Trustee, elected 2005
Peter Robinson, an author, television host, and former White House speechwriter, is a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the public policy research center at Stanford University. Robinson served from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H. W. Bush. In 1983 Robinson joined the President's staff, serving almost five years as Speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, an experience he recounts in his 2003 book, How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life. Robinson provided the chief executive with more than 300 speeches, including the 1987 Berlin Wall address. At Dartmouth, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Robinson majored in English and worked for The Dartmouth as a reporter, columnist, and editor. After graduating from the College Summa Cum Laude, Robinson attended Oxford University, at which he studied philosophy, politics, and economics, graduating in 1981, and Stanford Business School, from which he received an M.B.A. in 1990. During the early nineteen-nineties Robinson worked at the News Corporation, reporting to the CEO, Rupert Murdoch, and at the Securities and Exchange Commission, serving as press secretary to the chairman. In 1993 Robinson received an appointment at the Hoover Institution. Robinson now edits a quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest; provides commentary for outlets such as National Public Radio and Fox News; hosts the public affairs interview program, Uncommon Knowledge; and devotes himself to writing. In addition to his book about President Reagan, Robinson has published a study of the Republican Party, It's My Party, and a book about business school, Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA. Robinson lives in northern California with his wife and their five children.
Jonathan Skinner
The John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
Professor, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Family and Community Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
B.A. University of Rochester
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Jonathan Skinner's research interests include studying the efficiency and equity of the Medicare program, geography and racial disparities in health care, and the savings behavior of aging baby-boomers. Prior to moving to Hanover, he was assistant, associate, and full professor at the University of Virginia, and a visiting associate professor at Harvard and Stanford universities. Skinner also serves as a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, MA, and is a former editor of the Journal of Human Resources. In 2001 he was awarded the first Profiles in Excellent Teaching Award from the Dartmouth Student Assembly. A recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in 2006-08, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. His Ph.D. from UCLA is in economics. He lives in Hanover with his wife and two children.
