Debora Spar

Debora L.
Spar is Chairman at Making Markets Work, Director at The Wallace Foundation, Independent Director at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. since 2019, Non-Executive Director at Value Retail Plc since 2013, Trustee at Bentley University, Trustee at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. since 2016, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Advisor at Xfund Management Co. LLC, and Professor at Harvard Business School since 2020.
Former roles include President & Chief Executive Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. from 2017 to 2018, Independent Director at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2012 to 2017, Director at The John & Mary R.
Markle Foundation, Inc., Independent Director at Northern Star Acquisition Corp., President at Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and Trustee at The Nightingale-Bamford School, Inc. Education includes a doctorate from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.