Mathews and Wells elected to Harvard Corporation
Jessica Tuchman Mathews and Theodore V. Wells Jr. have been elected to become the newest members of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the Harvard Corporation), the University announced today. Mathews, an alumna and past trustee of Radcliffe College, has served for the past fifteen years as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. Wells, a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School and one of the nation’s leading trial lawyers, has served since 2000 as co-chair of the litigation department at the New York-based firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. In accordance with Harvard’s charter, Mathews and Wells were elected today by the Corporation with the consent of the Board of Overseers, and will become Fellows of Harvard College as of Jan. 1, 2013. They are the fifth and sixth new members named to the Corporation...