The Graduate School Board of Visitors, established in 2010, serves an important advisory function for the dean of The Graduate School. Comprising alumni from a broad geographic area and representing the comprehensive nature of The Graduate School, the board helps to support and promote the mission of The Graduate School. The board considers and provides information and makes recommendations on matters relating to the graduate experience at Duke. It gives informal advice and assistance about programs and projects and enhances communication among the constituencies of The Graduate School.
Board of Visitors 2023–2024
Chair: Ronald Temple ’90, New York, New York
Managing Director and Co-Head of Multi-Asset and Head of US Equity at Lazard Asset Management LLC
Zaid Abdul-Aleem A.B.’94, A.M.’96, Chicago, Illinois
Partner at Invictus Growth Partners
Patricia Sánchez Abril A.B.'96, Coral Gables, Florida
Professor of Business Law and Associate Dean of the University of Miami Graduate School
Yang Chen M.S.'95, Ph.D.'97, Princeton Junction, New Jersey
Managing Director of BlackRock's Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group
Edwin Cooper A.M.'05, M.B.A.'07, Fayetteville, Georgia
Vice President of Finance and Business Unit CFO at Change Healthcare
Joseph Davis A.M.’95, Ph.D.’02, Malvern, Pennsylvania
Global Chief Economist at Vanguard Group and Global Head of Investment Strategy Group
Pavan Desikan Ph.D.'00, Palo Alto, California
Software Engineer at Google, Inc.
Xiaobo Fan Ph.D.'04, Palo Alto, California
Tech Lead at Google, Inc.
Dennis Gilmore Ph.D.’78, P'14, Durham, North Carolina
Founder and President at Crosslynk Research & Consulting, LLC
Vernon Chun Jiang Ph.D.’94, Hillsborough, California
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Cothera Bioscience
Srinivasan "Chini" Krishnan M.S.’91, Ph.D.’92, Palo Alto, California
Founder and CEO of Vimo, Inc.
Rachael Lau B.S.E.’20, M.S.’22, Plainfield, Illinois
Civil & Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at Duke
June Mullaney Mader Ph.D.’86, Durham, North Carolina
Principal Consultant at GoForward, LLC
Sarah Mustillo A.M.'99, Ph.D.'01, South Bend, Indiana
Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame
Michele Rasmussen Ph.D.’99, Chicago, Illinois
Dean of Students at the University of Chicago
Mary Manley Sapp A.B.’71, P’01, P’02, Reston, Virginia
Stephen Sapp A.B.’68, M.Div.’71, Ph.D.’75, P’01, P’02, Reston, Virginia
Joyce Scott Ph.D.’73, Greeley, Colorado
Vijay Srinivasan Ph.D.’95, Los Altos, California
Co-Founder of Major League Cricket (MLC)
Joshua Strayhorn A.M.’21, Ph.D.’23, Durham, North Carolina
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Parks Service
George Wright Ph.D.’77, Lexington, Kentucky
Senior Advisor to the President and Interim Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Kentucky
Fang Liang "Frank" Zhang Ph.D.’95, P’17, P’23, P’26, Fanwood, New Jersey
Co-Founder and CEO of GenScript
Past Chairs
- Susan Wood M.S. '88, Palo Alto, California
- Catherine McKnight ’98, A.M.’04, Ph.D.’07, Brooklyn, NY
- Matt Rhodes-Kropf ’93, Ph.D.’99, Newton, MA
- Peter Allan Muoio Active PA G'88, Roslyn Harbor NY
- William Edwards Hunt Active PA T'84, Pittsburgh PA