Chu, Clair to lead Overseers
Morgan Chu, J.D.’76, an intellectual property lawyer and partner at Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, has been named president of the Board of Overseers for 2014-15. Walter Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, medical director of cardiac electrophysiology and associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., will serve as vice chair of the board’s executive committee. “Harvard is fortunate year after year to have such accomplished and devoted alumni, with helpfully complementary perspectives, provide leadership on the Board of Overseers,” said Harvard President Drew Faust. “Along with so many of their colleagues, Morgan Chu and Walter Clair embody the board’s constant concern for understanding what helps Harvard thrive, challenging us to innovate and do still better, and encouraging us to think across traditional boundaries to see the University as a whole.” Chu and Clair will be serving the final year of their six-year Overseer terms. They...