The Trustees of Princeton University is a 40-member board responsible for managing Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

's endowment, real estate, instructional programs, and admission. The Trustees include at least 13 members elected by alumni classes, and the Governor of New Jersey

Governor of New Jersey

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 and the President of the University

President of Princeton University

Princeton University is led by a President selected by the Board of Trustees. Until the accession of Woodrow Wilson, a political scientist, in 1902, they were all clergymen, as well as professors. President Tilghman is a biologist; her two predecessors were economists.-Presidents:# Reverend...

 as ex-officio members.

The Trustees' mission and responsibilities stem from the original Charter of the college, written in 1746. The Trustees oversee the budget of the university through the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO). Notable recent policy decisions include implementing the residential college

Residential college

A residential college is an organisational pattern for a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship with the overall...

 system, accepting coeducation

Coeducation

Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...

, and increasing the size of the undergraduate student body.

Current Trustees

Officers of the Board

• Shirley M. Tilghman — President of the University
• Kathryn A. Hall — Chair of the Executive Committee
• Brent L. Henry — Clerk of the Board
• Robert S. Murley — Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
• Robert K. Durkee — Secretary of the University

Ex officio

• Shirley M. Tilghman — President of the University
• Christopher Christie — Governor of New Jersey

Members of the Board

Danielle Allen Danielle Allen Danielle S. Allen is an American classicist and political scientist, and UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....	UPS Foundation Professor, Institute for Advanced Study Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...	Class of 1993
Aku Ammah-Tagoe	Teaching Fellow in English, Phillips Academy Phillips Academy Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...	Class of 2011
Thomas A. Barron T. A. Barron Thomas Archibald Barron is an American writer of fantasy literature, books for children and young adults, and nature books.-Biography:...	Writer	Class of 1974
A. Scott Berg A. Scott Berg Andrew Scott Berg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer. After graduating from Princeton University in 1971, Berg expanded his senior thesis, about editor Maxwell Perkins, into a full-length biography. Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius won a National Book Award, and his second book,...	Writer	Class of 1971
Kim M. Boyle	Partner, Phelps Dunbar LLP	Class of 1984
Katherine Brittain Bradley	President, CityBridge Foundation	Class of 1986
Christopher A. Cole	Chairman, Investment Banking Division, Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Class of 1981
Pyper Davis	Chief Operating Officer, SEED Foundation SEED Foundation The SEED Foundation also often referred to as the SEED Schools, is a private foundation, established in 1997 to provide boarding school educational opportunities to underserved students....	Class of 1987
John D. Diekman	Managing Partner, 5AM Ventures	Class of 1965
Elizabeth A. Dilday	Student, Keck School of Medicine	Class of 2013
Carl Ferenbach III	Managing Director, Private Equity Investment, Berkshire Partners Berkshire Partners Berkshire Partners, the Boston-based private equity firm, has invested in leading mid-sized companies for over twenty-five years through eight investment funds with aggregate capital of $11 billion. Berkshire has developed specific industry experience in several areas including retailing, consumer...	Class of 1964
Henri Ford Henri Ford Henri Ronald Ford is a Haitian-American pediatric surgeon. He is currently chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Vice Dean for Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California...	Vice President and Surgeon-in-Chief, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Children's Hospital Los Angeles Children's Hospital Los Angeles, formerly Childrens Hospital Society, is a private, non-profit teaching hospital in Los Angeles. The hospital provides multidisciplinary care to over 93,000 children each year, with physician expertise in over 100 pediatric specialties and subspecialties.The hospital... ; Director of Surgery and Vice-Dean for Education, Keck School of Medicine	Class of 1980
Laura L. Forese	Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital is a prominent university hospital in New York City affiliated with two Ivy League medical schools: Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Cornell University's Weill Medical College. It is composed of two distinct medical centers, Columbia...	Class of 1983
William K. Fung William Fung Dr. William Fung Kwok Lun, BSE, OBE, JP is a Hong Kong entrepreneur who is the group managing director of Li & Fung Group, one of the largest trading companies in Hong Kong, as well as an alumnus and trustee of Princeton University. He is the younger brother of Dr. Victor Fung Kwok King, the...	Executive Deputy Chairman, Li & Fung Ltd.	Class of 1970
Francis Joshua Grehan	Sachs Scholar, Oxford University	Class of 2010
Kathryn A. Hall	Chief Executive Officer; Chief Investment Officer, Hall Capital Partners LLC	Class of 1980
Julia Haller Gottsch	Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, Wills Eye Institute Wills Eye Institute Wills Eye Institute is a non-profit eye clinic and hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1832 and is the oldest continually operating eye-care facility in the United States...	Class of 1976
Philip U. Hammarskjold	Director and Chief Executive Officer, Hellman & Friedman Hellman & Friedman Hellman & Friedman is a private equity firm, founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman, that makes investments primarily through leveraged buyouts and minority growth capital investments....	Class of 1987
Brent L. Henry	Vice President and General Counsel, Partners HealthCare Partners HealthCare Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital founded the organization in 1994...	Class of 1969
Randall L. Kennedy	Professor, Harvard Law School Harvard Law School Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...	Class of 1977
Peter B. Lewis	Chairman, Progressive Corporation Progressive Corporation The Progressive Corporation , known as the Progressive Casualty Insurance Company through its subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance, and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services in the United States....	Class of 1955
Heidi G. Miller	President, J.P. Morgan Chase International	Class of 1974
Robert S. Murley	Chairman, Investment Banking, Credit Suisse Credit Suisse The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...  Securities LLC	Class of 1972
Crystal Nix Hines Crystal Nix Hines Crystal Nix Hines was the executive story editor for the television series Alias second season. She also wrote some episodes of Alias and is credited as co-producer in a few episodes...	Television Writer/Producer; Attorney	Class of 1985
David G. Offensend	Chief Operating Officer, New York Public Library New York Public Library The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...	Class of 1975
Stephen A. Oxman	Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....	Class of 1967
Nancy B. Peretsman	Managing Director, Allen & Company Allen & Company Allen & Company is a boutique investment bank based at 711 Fifth Avenue, New York City.-History:Founded in 1922 by Charles Robert Allen, Jr., he was soon joined by his brother, Herbert A. Allen, Sr...	Class of 1976
Meaghan P. Petersack	Elementary school teacher, The Arts and Technology Academy	Class of 2008
Michael E. Porter	Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Harvard University Professor At Harvard University, the title of University Professor is an honor bestowed upon a very small number of its tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have attained particular distinction and influence. This honor was created in 1935 by Harvard's President and Fellows... , Harvard Business School Harvard Business School Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...	Class of 1969
Kavita N. Ramdas	Executive Director, Ripples to Waves, Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...	Class of 1988 (M.P.A.)
Louise S. Sams	Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is the Time Warner subsidiary managing the collection of cable networks and properties started and acquired by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner starting in the mid-1970s. The company has its headquarters in the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. TBS, Inc... ; President, Turner Broadcasting System International	Class of 1979
Thomas Siebel Thomas Siebel Thomas Siebel is a business executive. He is the chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with interests in commercial real estate, agribusiness, global investment management, and philanthropy.-Education and Work:...	Executive Chairman, C3, LLC	Parent of Class of 2011
Meg Whitman Meg Whitman Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is an American business executive. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School...	Strategic Advisor, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers; former President and Chief Executive Officer, eBay EBay eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...	Class of 1977
George F. Will	Columnist, Washington Post; author	Class of 1968 (Ph.D. Ph.D. A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer... )
Gordon Y. S. Wu	Chairman, Hopewell Holdings Hopewell Holdings Hopewell Holdings Limited ,, established on 17 October, 1972], is a Hong Kong-listed infrastructure and property firm headed by Sir Gordon Wu.-History:It was listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in 1972....	Class of 1958
C. James Yeh	Senior Managing Director, Citadel Investment Group Citadel Investment Group Citadel LLC is a global financial institution based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1990 by Kenneth C. Griffin, the firm today deploys capital across multiple asset classes and strategies...	Class of 1987
Zhu Min Zhu Min (economist) Zhu Min is a Chinese economist and is currently Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. He was previously the inaugural Special Advisor to the Managing Director...	Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...	Class of 1988 (M.P.A.)