- Yale Corporation
The Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of
Yale University inNew Haven, Connecticut .The Corporation comprises 19 members:
* Three
ex officio members: the President of the University and the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut.
* Ten "Successor Trustees," who elect their own successors.
* Six Alumni Fellows, who are elected by the body of Yale alumni.While Article 8 Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Connecticut recognizes a 1792 Act of the Connecticut General Assembly, which established the governor, lieutenant governor, and six members of the State Senate as ex officio members of the Corporation, an 1871 act of the Connecticut Legislature gave Yale alumni the right to elect the six posts formerly occupied by state senators.
Current members as of the 2006 to 2007 school year:
*Rick Levin , President ofYale University (ex officio)
*M. Jodi Rell , Governor of the State of Connecticut (ex officio)
*Michael Fedele , Lieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut (ex officio)
*G. Leonard Baker , managing partner ofSutter Hill Ventures
*Roland W. Betts , investor, film producer, developer, and owner ofChelsea Piers
*Susan M. Crown , Vice President of Henry Crown Co. and President of Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
*Charles D. Ellis, senior advisor and founder of Greenwich Associates
*Gerhard Casper , Professor of Law and President Emeritus atStanford University
*Edward P. Bass , Chairman and CEO, Fine Line, Inc., co-founder and funder ofBiosphere 2
*Maya Lin , architect and sculptor of Maya Lin Studios
*Indra Nooyi , CEO ofPepsiCo
*Hon. Barrington D. Parker, Jr., federal appeals court judge for the Second Circuit.
*Janet Yellen , Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, former Federal Reserve Governor, former chair ofBill Clinton ’sCouncil of Economic Advisors
*Theodore P. Shen , former Chairman of DLJ Capital Markets and retired investment analyst
*Jeffrey P. Koplan , Vice President for Academic Health Affairs ofEmory University
*Hon. Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice of theMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
*William I. Miller , Chairman and CEO of Irwin Financial Corporation
*Fareed Zakaria , Editor of "Newsweek International "
*Jeffrey Bewkes , President and CEO ofTime Warner
*Donna Dubinsky , Chair and Chief Executive Officer ofNumenta , Inc.
*Margaret Warner , senior correspondent forPBS 's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer "External links
* [http://www.yale.edu/about/bylaws.html The Bylaws of the Yale Corporation]
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