#board-governance

#board-governance

Citing his "deep devotion to Harvard and to the importance of academic values and academic freedom," President Alan Garber and Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker announced Shanmugam's election in a message to the Harvard community on Thursday afternoon.

It took about four board meetings before we were able to land on what we wanted to do concretely.

Mr. Trump made himself chairman of the center's board last month after dismissing all of the Biden-era appointees, upending a bipartisan tradition that had endured for decades.

This was a difficult decision and not one that I made casually, but instead only after careful consideration and thought.