New Board Members
Andrew Delbanco
Andrew Delbanco is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of the American Studies Program at Columbia University. He teaches courses on American literature, history, and religion, as well as on issues in higher education. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. Mr. Delbanco is the author and editor of several books, including Melville: His World and Work, Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present, The Real American Dream, Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now, and The Death of Satan. His essays regularly appear in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and other journals. His scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He was named the New York State Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities in 2003, and in 2001, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Delbanco is a director of the Association of American Colleges & Universities and of the Library of America, a former trustee of the PEN American Center, and is on the board of editors of the New England Quarterly. He received his AB, AM, and PhD degrees from the department of English and American literature at Harvard University.
Barbara Benioff Friedman
Barbara Benioff Friedman is chair of the board of governors of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; vice chair of the board of overseers of Weill-Cornell Medical College and co-chair of the special committee on research; and is on the advisory board of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, with which she has been involved since its inception. She is a trustee emerita of Cornell University, having served on the Board for 12 years, as vice chair as well as co-chair of the academic affairs and membership committees. Ms. Friedman has served on several not-for-profit organization boards, including the Settlement House Fund, JBI International (as chair), and CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (also as chair). She was on the board of UJA-Federation of New York, where she chaired the distribution and public policy committees. Ms. Friedman received her BA degree from Cornell University in 1959 and for a few years, taught in the New York City public school system.
Grant Porter
Grant Porter is a vice chairman at Barclays Capital, where he is also chairman of global natural resources investment banking, and a member of the investment banking business development committee. He was previously at Lehman Brothers, where he held the same position and served on the firm's senior client counsel and principal opportunities committee. There, he received the Chairman's Award for Extraordinary Client Service and the President's Award for Corporate Citizenship. Mr. Porter joined Lehman Brothers in 1986 as a managing director and for 16 years led the firm's global natural resources investment banking. Prior to that, he was a managing director in the Chase Investment Bank, covering energy corporate finance at Chase Manhattan Bank, and vice president and national petroleum executive in Chase Manhattan Bank's petroleum division. Mr. Porter currently serves on the advisory board of New Providence Asset Management. He is a member of the board of The Taft School and a member of the business committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Porter received his BA degree in English from Brown University and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development.
Cornelia M. Small
Cornelia M. Small has over thirty years of investment management experience. She retired in 2000 from Scudder Kemper Investments, where she held the position of chief investment officer, and before that, director of global equity investments, director of global equity research, and economist. She is currently chair of the board of Smith College, member of the board of trustees of Fidelity Funds, and member of the investment committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. Ms. Small received her BA degree in economics from Smith College, and a masters of arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School. She studied painting at the National Academy of Design School.