University of Chicago

Leadership & Staff

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Antonio Gracias CEO of Valor Equity Partners

• Board Member

Eric Santner Professor of Modern Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

• Professor of Modern Germanic Studies ('96→?)

David Wellbery Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

• Professor of German and Comparative Literature ('01→?)

Molly Branson Thayer Director of Strategic Initiatives, U Chicago

• Director of Strategic Initiatives

Rick Stevens Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago

• Professor, High Performance Computing ('99→?)*

John Novembre Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago

• Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics

Jonathan L Alperin Professor of Mathematics, University Of Chicago

• Professor of Mathematics ('63→?)

Robert Rosner Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago

• Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics ('87→?)

James A Shapiro Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago

• Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ('73→?)

Karlene Burrell-McRae Director and Associate Dean of Students, University of Chicago

• Associate Dean of Students

Board Members

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Harvey B Plotnick Former President - Paradigm Holdings Inc.

• Member, Board of Trustees ('94→?)

Richard P Strubel Vice Chairman - UNext Inc.

• Member, Board of Trustees

Andrew M Alper Chairman, EQA Partners

• Chairman, Board of Trustees

Timothy M George Founding Partner - Greenhill & Company, LLC

• Member, Board of Trustees

Thomas Pritzker Executive chairman, Hyatt

• Member, Board of Trustees

King W Harris

• Member, Board of Trustees

Satya Nadella Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft

• Trustee

Liz Thompson non-profit organizer and noted philanthropist

• trustee ('12→?)

Alvaro Saieh president of CorpGroup Holding

• trustee ('12→?)

David Brooks The Atlantic columnist, former New York Times columnist

• trustee ('12→?)

Donors

Mellody Hobson President of Ariel Capital Management

• Donation · 25,000,000 USD

Sarah Scaife Foundation Conservative funding juggernaut

• Grant · 100,000 USD ('09)

Resnick Foundation Charitable Foundation of Lynda and Stewart Resnick

• Donation · 50,000 USD ('21) [+1]

• Donation · 50,000 USD ('21)

Jamie Dimon Chairman & CEO of JPMorganChase

• Donation ('05)

Holdings

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC Fermilab operator since 2025; U. Chicago, Universities Research Association, Amentum, and Longenecker and Associates.

• Owner

UChicago Argonne LLC

• Owner

Fermi Research Alliance, LLC Fermilab operator 2007-2024; joint venture of the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association.

• Owner (?→'24)

Computation Institute Advance Innovative Modeling, Joint Project University of Chicago and Argonne Labs

• Owner ('00→?)*

Child Organizations

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University of Chicago Department of Physics

• Child Org

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

• Child Org

Urban Center for Computation and Data Big data think tank at the University of Chicago.

• Child Org

National Opinion Research Center Social research organization

• Child Org

University of Chicago Department of Statistics

• Child Org

University of Chicago Department of Economics

• Child Org

Urban Education Institute University of Chicago education institute

• Child Org

Harris School of Public Policy Studies One of six professional schools at the University of Chicago

• Child Org

The University of Chicago Law School

• Child Org

Argonne National Laboratory Department of Energy's science and engineering research laboratory

• Child Org (?→'06)

Members

Results For America Evidence-Based Philanthropy

• Member

Memberships

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

• Member*

Services & Transactions

Chase Bank USA, National Association JPMorgan Chase’s credit card-issuing bank.

• credit cards · 300,000 USD ('12) [+1]

• credit cards · 300,000 USD ('10)

Baupost Group Hedge fund in Boston, MA; headed by Seth Klarman

• investment manager

Kivvit PR firm, formed from merger of ASGK Public Strategies & M Public Affairs

• PR representative

Students

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Justin Kasper Chief of Technology at BWXT Advanced Technologies; principal investigator of NASA's Parker Solar Probe SWEAP instrument; former University of Michigan professor.

• A.B., Physics (?→'99)

Will Toor Colorado Energy Office head. Former Boulder County Commissioner, Boulder mayor, councilperson

• Graduate, physics (past)

Evita Duffy-Alfonso Freelance journalist, daughter of US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

• Student

Alexander Polikoff Chicago lawyer who won a landmark discrimination case before the Supreme Court in 1976 showing that the City of Chicago had segregated Black and white public housing residents

• MA, English (?→'50) [+1]

• Bachelor's Degree (?→'49)

Richard L Garwin IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center

• PhD, 1949

Martin E Marty Religious historian, writer and author

• PhD (?→'56)

Greg Palast Freelance journalist, author

• Student

Philip Low Founded NeuroVigil in 2007

• BS, Mathematics (?→'00)

Daniel E Levin Founder and chairman of The Habitat Company

• Student

Peter Mensch Music manager - Co owner, Q Prime

• Master's Degree

Miscellaneous Relationships

Science of Diversity & Inclusion Initiative A living lab to catalyze high-impact innovations in Diversity & Inclusion.

• Affiliation ('17→?)

Sustainability Skills Initiative

• Affiliation [+1]

• Affiliation

Fenics Software Open Source Automated Solutions of Differential Equations

• Co-Founded By ('03→?)*

Mind + Matter Studio

• Affiliation

Thrive Chicago Strive Network Collective Impact Chicago

• Affiliation

City of Chicago Midwestern city with more than 2.7 million residents on Lake Michigan

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