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Former and Current Presidents, Chief Operating Officers, and Trustees

Presidents

Margaret Olivia Sage

1907-1918

Robert W. deForest

1918-1931

No President

(General Director, Shelby Harrison, 1931-1948)
1931 - 1936

Lawson Purdy

1936 - 1944

Morris Hadley

1944 - 1949

Eli Whitney Debevoise

1949 - 1955

Donald R. Young

1955 - 1963

Orville G. Brim, Jr.

1963 - 1972

Hugh F. Cline

1972 - 1976

Aaron Wildavsky

1976 - 1978

David B. Truman

1978 - 1979

Marshall A. Robinson

1979 - 1986

Eric Wanner

1986 - 2013

Sheldon Danziger

2013 - 2025

Bruce Western

2025 - Present

Chief Operating Officers*

John M. Glenn

1907 - 1931

Shelby M. Harrison

1931 - 1948

Donald R. Young

1948 - 1963

Orville G. Brim, Jr.

1963 - 1972

Hugh F. Cline

1972 - 1976

Aaron Wildavsky

1976 - 1978

David B. Truman

1978 - 1979

Marshall A. Robinson

1979 - 1986

Eric Wanner

1986 - 2013

Sheldon Danziger

2013 - 2025

Bruce Western

2025 - Present

*Prior to 1955, the chief operating officer of the Foundation held the title General Director; after 1955 the COO was the President.

Former and Current Trustees

John M. Glenn    1907 - 1931
Margaret Olivia Sage    1907- 1918
Robert W. deForest    1907 - 1931
Cleveland H. Dodge    1907 - 1920
Daniel C. Gilman    1907 - 1908
Helen M. Gould Shepard    1907 - 1936
Robert C. Ogden    1907 - 1913
Gertrude S. Rice    1907 - 1926
Louisa Lee Schuyler    1907 - 1926
Alfred T. White    1909 - 1921
John H. Finley    1913 - 1940
Charles D. Norton      1918 - 1923
Frederic A. Delano    1921 - 1939
Dwight W. Morrow    1921 - 1931
Lawson Purdy    1923 - 1957
Laura B. Lee    1926 - 1938
Harold T. White    1926 - 1956
Johnston deForest      1931 - 1952
Lindsay Bradford    1933 - 1955
Joseph P. Chamberlain    1934 - 1949
Morris Hadley    1934 - 1949
Harry Woodburn Chase    1936 - 1954
Arthur H. Ham   1939 - 1947
Robert M. MacIver    1940 - 1964
David H. Morris, Jr.    1940 - 1967
Eli Whitney Debevoise    1945 - 1967
Charles Merz    1948 - 1966
Donald R. Young    1948 - 1967
Daniel G. Tenney, Jr.    1949 - 1967
Carl I. Hovland      1952 - 1961
Samuel S. Wilks    1953 - 1964
Richard H. Shryock    1955 - 1965
Frederick G. Duncan    1957 - 1973
Robert K. Greenleaf    1957 - 1965
Dael L. Wolfle    1961 - 1978
Orville G. Brim, Jr.        1963 - 1972
Oscar M. Ruebhausen    1964 - 1980
Frederick Mosteller    1964 - 1985
Morris D. Crawford, Jr.    1965 - 1979
Abe Fortas    1966 - 1969
Francis Keppel    1966 - 1972
William C. Greenough    1967 - 1978
David B. Truman    1967 - 1981
Robert S. Morison    1968 - 1978
Warren H. Bacon    1968 - 1980
Edward H. Levi       1971 - 1975
Hugh F. Cline    1972 - 1976
Herma Hill Kay    1973 - 1987
Guido Calabresi    1975 - 1981
John S. Reed    1975 - 1989
Aaron Wildavsky    1976 - 1978
Thomas C. Edwards, Jr.    1978 - 1984
Robert McCormick Adams    1978 - 1991
William D. Carey    1978 - 1983
Marshall A. Robinson    1979 - 1986
Carl Kaysen      1979 - 1989
Earl F. Cheit       1979 - 1989
Madelon Talley       1979 - 1989
Gardner Lindzey    1980 - 1990
Patricia King    1981 - 1991
Renee Fox    1981 - 1987
Gary E. MacDougal    1981 - 1991
Philip Converse    1982 - 1992
James March    1984 - 1994
Mortimer Zuckerman     1984 - 1986
Eric Wanner    1986 - 2013
Anne Pitts Carter    1987 - 1997
Howard Raiffa    1987 - 1997
Harold Tanner    1988 - 1998
William Julius Wilson    1988 - 1998
Joel E. Cohen    1989 - 1999
Peggy C. Davis    1989 - 1999
Neil J. Smelser    1990 - 2000
Laura D. Tyson    1991
Phoebe C. Ellsworth    1991 - 2001
Marta Tienda    1991 - 2001
Ira Katznelson    1992 - 2002
Ellen C. Lagemann    1993 - 2003
Eugene Smolensky    1994 - 2004
Timothy A. Hultquist    1995 - 2005
Alan S. Blinder    1996 - 2006
Robert Denham    1997 - 2007; 2009 - 2014
Jennifer Hochschild    1997 - 2007
Thomas C. Cook    1998 - 2008
Christine Cassel    1999 - 2006
Cora Marrett    1999 - 2009
Melvin Konner    2000 - 2010
Kathleen Hall Jamieson    2001 - 2011
Lawrence Hedges    2002 - 2012
Mary Waters    2002 - 2011
John Ferejohn    2003 - 2013
Alan B. Krueger    2004 - 2009
Christopher Edley, Jr.    2004 - 2009
Kenneth Brody    2005 - 2015
Richard Thaler    2006 - 2016
W. Bowman Cutter, III    2007 - 2017
Nancy Rosenblum    2007 - 2014
Shelley E. Taylor    2008 - 2018
Lawrence F. Katz    2009 - 2019
Sara S. McLanahan    2009 - 2019
Claude M. Steele    2010 - 2020
Nicholas Lemann    2011 - 2021
Karen Cook    2012 - 2022
Sheldon Danziger    2013 - 2025
Kathryn Edin    2013 - 2023
Larry Bartels    2013 - 2023
Peter Orszag    2014 - 2019
Hiro Yoshikawa    2015 - 2020
David Laibson    2015 - Present
Michael Jones-Correa    2016 - Present
Martha Minow    2016 - 2022
Mario Luis Small    2017 - 2022
Cathy J. Cohen    2018 - 2023; 2024 - Present
Jason Furman    2018 - Present
Marianne Bertrand    2019 - Present
Hazel Rose Markus    2019 - Present
Jennifer Richeson    2019 - Present
David Leonhardt    2020 - Present
Jennifer Lee    2021 - 2025
Thomas Sugrue    2021 - Present
James Druckman    2022 - Present
Celeste Watkins-Hayes     2022 - Present
Earl Lewis    2023 - Present
Tracey Meares    2024 - Present
Bruce Western    2025 - Present
Mary Patillo    2025 - Present