Amy Gutmann
As Penn's President, Dr. Gutmann has assumed a national and international leadership role. She has become a prominent advocate at the Association of American Universities for equity in higher education. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Board of Governors of the Partnership for Public Service. In 2005, Gutmann was appointed to the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, a committee that advises the FBI on national security issues relating to academia. She also is among the leaders of a select group of presidents of research universities from around the world who advise the U.N. Secretary General on a range of global issues, including academic freedom, mass migration, international development, and the social responsibilities of universities.
Dr. Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Fourth Annual Bazzani Lecture on Nov. 6, 2006 in Chicago. Gutmann has been Penn’s president since July 2004. She continues to teach, lecture and write on ethics, justice, deliberative democracy and democratic education and the author of seven books and has served as president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.
Gutmann is a former provost at Princeton University and is a founding member of the executive committee of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics. Gutmann received her Ph.D. in political science from Harvard in 1976.
