Columbia University

Leadership & Staff

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Katrina Armstrong Columbia University interim president

• interim president (Aug 14 '24→?)

Victor H. Mendelson President of Mendelson International Corporation

• Position

Mark Gallogly Founder and managing partner of PE firm Centerbridge Partners and member of Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board

• Position

Kikka Hanazawa CEO, VPL - Japanese women's wear designer

• Position

Keith Goggin STR Trading Partners

• Position

Kathy Surace-Smith Attorney, Bellevue Washington; General Counsel, NanoString Technologies

• Position

Joseph A Greenaway Jr Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

• Position

Jonathan Lavine Managing Director, Bain Capital, LLC

• Position

Jeh Johnson former Department of Homeland Security Secretary

• Position

Dean Dakolias Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group, LLC

• Position

Board Members

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Li Lu President of Himalaya Management

• Trustee

Wanda M. Holland Greene Head of School, The Hamlin School

• Board Member

Shoshana Shendelman Founder, CEO, Chair, Applied Therapeutics; Founder, Clearpoint Strategy Group

• Board Member

Rolando T. Acosta Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

• Board Member

Jonathan Rosand Co-Founder and Managing Co-Director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health, Massachusetts General Hospital

• Board Member

Fermi Wang CEO and co-founder, Ambarella Inc

• Board Member

Duchesne Drew President, Minnesota Public Radio

• Board Member

Jonathan Sobel CEO, Foursquare Capital (Real Estate Investors); Former Goldman Sachs Head of Global Mortgage Department

• member, College board of visitors

Valerie McKeever

• member, College board of visitors

Michael F McKeever

• member, College board of visitors

Donors

Andrew W Mellon Foundation Major private foundation based in NYC

• Donation/Grant · 5,000,000 USD

Amazon.com, Inc. Online retail giant

• Donation/Grant · 5,000,000 USD*

ExxonMobil Foundation ExxonMobil's charity giving foundation

• Donation · 250,629 USD ('11)

Peter G Peterson Foundation Social Security privatization think tank funded by Blackstone Group founder

• Grant · 49,000 USD ('10)

James E and Patricia D Cayne Charitable Trust private foundation

• Donation/Grant · 45,000 USD ('14→'15)

Clinton Family Foundation Clinton family private foundation

• Donation · 10,000 USD ('10)

Donations

Regional Plan Association New York metropolitan region planning organization

• Donation/Grant

Child Trends Data-Driven Decision Making for Child Services

• Donation/Grant

Global Partnership For Sustainable Development Data Data Science Infrastructure for UN SDGs

• Funder

Urban Institute Public policy think tank; economic and social policy research

• Funder

Holdings

Associated Universities, Inc. A non-profit corporation consisting of representatives from nine universities

• Owner ('47→?)

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

• Parent Organization

Child Organizations

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Columbia Investment Management Company Columbia University investment arm

• wholly-owned subsidiary

Columbia Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering research center at Columbia University

• Child Org

Columbia Business School

• Child Org

Department of History Columbia University

• department ('96→?)

Columbia College (NY) The oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University

• Child Org

Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy Fossil fuel- and finance-funded think tank at Columbia University

• Child Org

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

• Child Org

The Earth Institute Research institute at Columbia University

• Child Org

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

• Child Org

Columbia Law School

• Child Org

Memberships

National Spectrum Consortium

• Member

Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Collaboration of Universities and New American in "Tech for Good"

• Member*

Services & Transactions

1290 Avenue of the Americas New York City office building 30% Trump owned

• landlord · 2,100,000 USD

FIA Card Services, N.A. Formerly MBNA | Merged with Bank of America Corp in 2006

• credit cards · 540,974 USD ('10) [+1]

• credit cards · 242,591 USD ('12)

Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC A provider of comprehensive education and training in intelligence

• training contractor

Renaissance Technologies LLC Hedge fund

• investment manager

William A Kirk

• lobbyist

Lauren K Merkin Designer and owner of Lauren Merkin

• a fundraiser

Students

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Bari Weiss Conservative writer

• Bachelor's Degree ('03→'07)

Alexa Staley

• Student

Yeonmi Park North Korean defector with a questionable back story

• Student

John McCloskey Prominent Catholic priest; Opus Dei

• Student

Dana Raucher Executive Director, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation

• Bachelor's Degree

Alan Hevesi NY State Assemblyman and Comptroller ('03-'06), banned from public office after pension scandal

• Doctorate, Public law and government (?→'71)

Arthur Engoron Judge of the Supreme Court 1st Judicial District in New York.

• BA

Kathryn Wasserman Davis Philanthropist; Russophile

• MA, international relations

Ada Elizabeth Deer Menominee Indian leader; first Native American woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Master's Degree, Social Work (?→'61)

Peter Meijer US Representative from Michigan

• Undergraduate

Miscellaneous Relationships

The American Assembly A think tank at Columbia University, founded in 1950 by General Dwight Eisenhower

• located at

Cities for All

• Affiliation

Guttmacher Institute research and policy organization for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) worldwide

• Affiliation

Barnard College Liberal Arts college for women affiliated with Columbia Univ.

• affiliated college ('89→?)