Hauser Leaders Program

Deborah Borda
Hauser Visiting Leader
President and CEO, New York Philharmonic

Deborah Borda is President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic, a role she assumed in September 2017. Previously, Ms. Borda was President and CEO of the LA Philharmonic; Executive Director of the NY Philharmonic; General Manager of the San Francisco Symphony; President and Managing Director of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; and Executive Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Throughout her career, Ms. Borda has extended the artistic, commercial, and technological boundaries of American symphony orchestras. Within her first few months after returning to the NY Phil in 2017, she assembled a new leadership team to support her and Music Director Designate Jaap van Zweden’s vision for the Orchestra, and announced a $50mm launch fund to usher in a new era of fiscal stability. In her first decade in Los Angeles, Ms. Borda reinvigorated plans to build and launch Walt Disney Concert Hall, oversaw the addition of a new shell for the Hollywood Bowl, and reimagined and diversified programming at both venues. She also spearheaded the appointment of music director Gustavo Dudamel, with whom she invested in groundbreaking educational and social change initiatives, including the founding of YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) and the national Take a Stand initiative.

In May 2017, she received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, and in 2018 she was named Chair, Avery Fisher Artist Program. In October 2018, Ms. Borda will be inducted as a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Alice Chen
Hauser Visiting Leader
Executive Director, Doctors for America (2011-2017)

Scheduled visit: Monday, March 11, 2019 through Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Alice T. Chen, M.D. is a practicing internal medicine physician and served as Executive Director and a founding board member of Doctors for America. Under her leadership, Doctors for America mobilized a movement of thousands of physicians and medical students in all 50 states to bring their patients’ experiences to policy makers and move the nation to put patients over politics to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, high quality health care and the means to lead a healthy life. She led efforts to educate doctors and medical students about key policy developments, train and support them in advocacy and leadership skills, and organize national, state, and local campaigns. Campaigns included the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ongoing defense of the law, a four-state Patients Over Politics Bus Tour, ACA outreach and enrollment, Medicaid expansion, defense of the Public Health and Prevention Fund, protection of access to contraception and abortion, efforts to lift the effective ban on CDC gun violence prevention research, and the confirmation of the 19th Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. She has spoken extensively on health issues and physician advocacy in national media and with physician and public audiences.

In addition, she served as the co-director of the UCLA Residency Elective in Malawi, Africa. As a medical student, she volunteered with the American Red Cross 9/11 Relief Operation in New York City as a caseworker, Chinese translator, and assistant to the director of the largest service center in Lower Manhattan. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her MD from Cornell Medical College. She completed her internal medicine residency at UCLA. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at George Washington University and an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides with her husband and two children in Washington, DC.

Nicholas Kristof
Hauser Visiting Leader
Op-ed Columnist, The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner

Scheduled visit: Monday, April 8, 2019 to Tuesday, April 9 2019

Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for The Times since 2001, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who writes op-ed columns that appear twice a week. Mr. Kristof grew up on a sheep and cherry farm near Yamhill, Oregon. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and then studied law at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.

After joining The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics, he served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. He later was Associate Managing Editor of The Times, responsible for Sunday editions. In 1990 Mr. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, then also a Times journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for commentary for what the judges called “his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world.”

In his column, Mr. Kristof was an early opponent of the Iraq war. He among the first to warn that we were losing ground to the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and raise doubts about WMD in Iraq.

Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn are authors of China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, and Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia. Together they wrote Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which was the inspiration of The Half the Sky Movement that seeks to ignite the change needed to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide. Most recently, Kristof and WuDunn authored A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity that also inspired a PBS-documentary, which both provide a unique and essential narrative about making a difference in the world — and a roadmap to becoming a conscientious global citizen.

John Kroger
Hauser Leader in Residence
President, Reed College (2012-2018)

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Dates of residency: September 2018 through May 2019

John R. Kroger is the 2018-2019 Hauser Leader in Residence, as well as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and Research Fellow at Harvard’s Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics. John has had a long and distinguished career in education and public service as a United States Marine, federal prosecutor, law professor, Oregon Attorney General, and college president. Most recently, John served as President of Reed College (2012-2018), where he led initiatives to increase admission applications, improve diversity, and enhance and broaden curricular offerings. Prior to Reed, John was elected Attorney General of Oregon after winning the nominations of both the Democratic and Republican parties. As Attorney General, he argued two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, created new units to protect civil rights and prosecute environmental crimes, and chaired the state’s Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission. John served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (1997-2002) and sat on the Justice Department’s Enron Task Force (2002-2003). In addition to his role as lead counsel in more than 200 federal criminal cases, John assisted with the criminal investigations of the Enron financial collapse, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, and crash of American Airlines Flight 587. Among his achievements, John was a Truman Scholar; he received the Justice Department’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney; he was granted awards for his teaching from Harvard and Lewis and Clark Law School; and his book Convictions, about his career prosecuting the mafia and Enron, received the Oregon Book Award.

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy
Hauser Visiting Leader
19th United States Surgeon General (2014-2017)

Scheduled visit: Monday, March 11, 2019 through Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States from 2014-2017. As Surgeon General, Dr. Murthy commanded the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a uniformed service of 6,600 public health offices serving vulnerable populations in 800 locations domestically and abroad. During his tenure, he helped address critical public health issues, including the Ebola outbreak, the Zika virus, low rates of physical activity, and the explosion in e-cigarette use among youth. In 2016, he launched the TurnTheTideRx campaign to combat the opioid epidemic. Dr. Murthy also issued the first Surgeon General's report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health to mobilize the nation to address our addiction crisis, and he released the first.

Dr. Murthy has called emotional well-being one of the most important and most underappreciated drivers of health. In particular, he has drawn attention to the profound impact that loneliness and social disconnection have on health, productivity, and education.

Dr. Murthy received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard and his MD and MBA degrees from Yale. He completed his residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he later joined the faculty as an internal medicine physician and instructor. As a clinician-educator, Dr. Murthy has cared for thousands of patients and trained hundreds of residents and medical students.

In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Murthy has dedicated himself to improving health through the lens of service, research, and entrepreneurship. He co-founded VISIONS, an HIV/AIDS education program in India and the United States and the Swasthya project (“health and wellbeing” in Sanskrit), a community health partnership in rural India that trained women to be health providers and educators. As a research scientist, Dr. Murthy conducted laboratory research on vaccine development and studied the participation of women and minorities in clinical trials. He also co-founded TrialNetworks, a software technology company that accelerates collaboration in clinical trials.

Dr. Ellen Ochoa
Hauser Visiting Leader
11th Director, NASA Johnson Space Center (2013-2018)

Scheduled visits:
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 through Thursday, April 4, 2019
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 through Thursday, April 25, 2019

Ellen Ochoa is an outside director and speaker, following her 30-year career at NASA as a senior government executive, astronaut and engineer.  She was the Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center from 2013 to 2018, leading the human space flight enterprise for the nation.  She became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1993. She has flown in space four times, logging nearly 1,000 hours, leading onboard scientific activities, operating the robotic arm, and serving as flight engineer during the launch, rendezvous, and entry phases of the mission. She has shared her experiences in more than 300 presentations to a variety of audiences.  She is honored to have six schools named after her, several books written about her for the K-8 grades and has been profiled in textbooks and on websites geared toward encouraging females and minorities to pursue technical fields. 

Dr. Ochoa provides executive guidance to a variety of organizations.  She is the Vice Chair of the National Science Board and chairs the Nomination Evaluation Committee of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.  She is on the boards of Service Corporation International, Mutual of America and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.  Previously, she served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas board (after chairing the Houston branch board), the Stanford University Board of Trustees and the Manned Space Flight Education Foundation, Inc. 

Dr. Ochoa is the recipient of many awards including NASA's highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Presidential Distinguished Rank of the Senior Executive Service, and three honorary doctorates.  She is in the Astronaut Hall of Fame, the California Hall of Fame and the International Air & Space Hall of Fame and is honored to have six school named after her.

Prior to her astronaut and management career, Dr. Ochoa was a research engineer and holds three patents for optical systems. She earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and a B.S. in Physics from San Diego State University.  She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

Henry Timms
Hauser Visiting Leader
President and CEO, 92nd Street Y

Scheduled visits:
Thursday, February 27, 2019 through Friday, February 28, 2019
Thursday, March 7, 2019 through Friday, March 8, 2019

Henry Timms is President and CEO of 92nd Street Y, a cultural and community center that creates programs and movements that foster learning and civic engagement. Under his leadership, the 144-year-old institution was named to Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies” list. He is the co-founder of #GivingTuesday, a global philanthropic movement that engages people in close to 100 countries that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars for good causes. Henry co-authored the bestselling book New Power, described by David Brooks in the New York Times as “the best window I’ve seen into this new world”. He was recently named as the next President and CEO of Lincoln Center.

Former Hauser Leaders

Larry Bacow (2014-2018)
President, Tufts University (2001-2011); President, Harvard University

Geoffrey Canada (Fall 2017)
President, Harlem Children’s Zone

Carol Caruso (2017-2018)
CEO and Co-Founder, Bloom Impact; Innovator-in-Residence, Social Innovation + Change Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Nicholas Ehrmann (2017-2018)
President and Founder, Blue Engine; Visiting Innovator, Social Innovation + Change Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Claude Grunitzky (2017-2018)
Entrepreneur, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, TRUE Africa; Visiting Innovator, Social Innovation + Change Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Donald Kaberuka (2015-2016)
President, African Development Bank (2005-2015)

The Hon. Mitchell Landrieu (Spring 2018)
61st Mayor, New Orleans, Louisiana (2010-2018)

Linda Mason (2014-2017)
Chair, Mercy Corps; Founder, Bright Horizons

Karen Gordon Mills (Fall 2018)
23rd Administrator, United States Small Business Administration (2009-2013)