Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates

Slates announced for spring election

Loeb house, where Harvard governing boards meet

Loeb House, where the governing boards meet | PHOTOGRAPH BY NIKO YAITANES/HARVARD MAGAZINE

THE HARVARD ALUMNI Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May 14 at 5:00 p.m. Degree holders other than officers of instruction and government may vote for Overseer candidates; all degree holders can vote on the HAA elected-director candidates.

Other candidates seeking a position on this year’s ballot must have submitted the required number of petition signatures by January 30; so far, none of the candidates who sought to petition for a space on the ballot last year has indicated a plan to try again this year. For information on the Overseer candidates’ views on the University’s opportunities and challenges, see Harvard Magazine’s extended online post with their answers to a set of questions.

The HAA nominating committee candidates for the 2025 ballot are the following, five to be elected Overseers and six to be elected HAA directors:

Overseer candidates

Lanhee J. Chen ’99, A.M. ’04, J.D. ’07, Ph.D. ’09, Mountain View, California, Steffy fellow in American public policy studies, Hoover Institution, and director of domestic policy studies, public policy program, Stanford University; partner, Brunswick Group

Mark A. Edwards ’82, Brookline, Massachusetts, co-founder and CEO, Upstream USA; founder and former executive director, Opportunity Nation 

Mary Louise Kelly ’93, Washington, D.C., journalist and broadcaster, co-host of All Things Considered, National Public Radio

Nathaniel Owen Keohane, Ph.D. ’01, New York City, president, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D. ’87, Atlanta, president and CEO, Morehouse School of Medicine

Michael Rosenblatt, M.D. ’73, Newton, Massachusetts, advisory partner, Ascenta Capital; senior adviser, Bain Capital Life Sciences and Flagship Pioneering; former executive vice president and chief medical officer, Merck; former dean, Tufts University Medical School

Anjali Sud, M.B.A. ’11, New York City, CEO; Tubi; former CEO, Vimeo

Courtney B. Vance ’82, La Canada Flintridge, California, actor, producer, writer; president and chair, SAG-AFTRA Foundation 
 

HAA elected director candidates

Daniel H. Ahn ’90, M.B.A. ’97, Burlingame, California, managing partner, Clearvision Ventures

Allison Pillinger Choi ’06, Bedford, New York, author 

Theresa J. Chung ’98, J.D. ’02, Dallas, administrative judge, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

Colin J. Kegler ’97, Provincetown, Massachusetts, senior software engineer, HealthEdge Inc.

Victoria “Vicky” Wai Ka Leung ’91, London, England, managing director and consultant, EC M&A

Nicholas J. Melvoin ’08, Los Angeles, elected board member, Los Angeles Unified School District

Pavlos P. Photiades ’88, Nicosia, Cyprus, chief executive officer, Photos Photiades Group

Angela M. Ruggiero ’02, M.B.A. ’14, Weston, Massachusetts, co-founder and chair, Sports Innovation Lab

Sanjay Seth, M.P.A.-M.U.P. ’19, East Boston, Massachusetts, former chief of staff and senior adviser for climate and equity, U.S. EPA New England

 

Read the University announcement here.

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