Board of Directors

Since 2006, Seth Alexander has been president of the MIT Investment Management Company (MITIMCO), which manages the university’s endowment, and oversees investment of its current funds, pension assets, and other institutional assets. Between 2006 and 2019, the MIT endowment grew from approximately...

Raja H. R. Bobbili is a Managing Director at Abrams Capital, an investment firm based in Boston. At Abrams Capital, Bobbili helps lead investments across a range of industries and asset classes. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant. Born in India and raised in...

Michael Chambers is the founding CEO of Aldevron, a company that specializes in nucleic acid, protein, and enzyme production and that has developed novel quality systems and technologies to accelerate the genetic medicine sector. The company was acquired by Danaher for $9.6 billion in 2021, and Chambers...

A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt Medical School in Nashville, Kevin Churchwell completed his pediatric residency and a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Boston Children's Hospital. Churchwell became Boston Children’s President and CEO in March 2021,...

d’Arbeloff is the first woman to have obtained a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford University and one of the first women to earn an S.M. degree from MIT. She became a mechanical engineer in the aircraft and space industries, contributing to the design of the Redstone ballistic missile...

Dr. Deborah Dunsire is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of Neurvati Neurosciences, a company dedicated to advancing therapies for neurological and psychiatric diseases. She graduated as a medical doctor from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Deborah’s...

Goldstein earned three degrees from MIT—bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and in biology, and a master’s in biochemical engineering—during which time he performed research in the lab of founding director David Baltimore. Subsequently, he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School...

Vice Chair

Joskow is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Emeritus at MIT and former president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He earned a PhD in Economics from Yale University, then served as an active MIT faculty member for 38 years, returning to MIT in 2018....

Since January 2023, Sally Kornbluth has served as MIT’s 18th president. In her Inaugural address, she urged the MIT community to tackle the interlocking challenges the world faces today, especially climate change, with renewed urgency. A cell biologist,...

Langer has held executive, operating, and governance roles in start-up and established biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, for more than three decades. Under his leadership, those organizations developed and/or commercialized more than 60 products. Having begun as a clinician—serving as...

A globally respected developmental and cell biology researcher, Lehmann is the fifth director of Whitehead Institute and professor of biology at MIT. She previously served as an Institute Member and MIT faculty member from 1988 to 1996, before beginning a distinguished 24-year career with New York...

Terry McGuire, a widely respected venture capital leader and founding partner of Polaris Partners, earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and a BS in physics and economics from Hobart College. In the...

Robert Satcher earned bachelor’s and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He is an associate professor of orthopaedic oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (MDACC), where he specializes in the treatment of skeletal...

Micho Spring is a Senior Advisor at Weber Shandwick, formerly leader of its Global Corporate practice and its Chief Reputation Officer. Micho brings extensive experience as a senior manager in both the public and private sectors to her work as a communications strategist, including six years as CEO...

Whitehead represents the second generation of a renowned philanthropic family: Susan Whitehead’s father, visionary industrialist and philanthropist Edwin C. “Jack” Whitehead, founded the Institute. She is a lifetime trustee of MIT and currently serves on the boards of the Museum of Science in...

Williamson is CEO of FCLTGlobal, a not-for-profit working to increase innovation, economic growth, and savings by encouraging long-term behaviors in business and investing. She possesses three decades’ experience in leadership and management, and has built extensive working relationships with business...

Director Emerita

Hockfield is president emerita and professor of neuroscience at MIT, where she served as the sixteenth president. As the first life scientist to lead MIT, she championed breakthroughs emerging from the convergence of the life, engineering, and physical sciences; and...

Director Emeritus

Langer, one of 11 Institute Professors at MIT, is one of the most respected researchers in the world and the most cited engineer in history. He has written more than 1,500 articles and has more than 1,400 issued and pending patents. He is among a handful of people...

Director Emeritus

Phillip A. Sharp is an Institute Professor (highest academic rank) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the Department of Biology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He joined the Center for Cancer Research (now the Koch Institute)...