I am pleased to announce the formation of an ad hoc Consultative Committee to advise me on the selection of the next Provost.  The members of the Consultative Committees are listed below.  The Committee welcomes—and will keep in the strictest confidence—nominations and input from all members of the University community. For fullest consideration, communications should be received, preferably in electronic form, no later than February 10, 2017, and may be sent to the Chair, to any Committee member, or to the Committee’s staff or consultants.

—Amy Gutmann, President

Consultative Committee for the Selection of a Provost

Chair
J. Larry Jameson, Executive Vice President of the University for the Health System, Dean, Perelman School of Medicine, and Robert G. Dunlop Professor, PSOM

Faculty
Sigal Ben-Porath, Professor, Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division, GSE
Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Associate Professor, SP2 
Julie Fairman, Nightingale Professor in Nursing; Chair, Biobehavioral Health Sciences Department; Director Emeritas, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing; Co-Director, RWJF Future of  Nursing Scholars Program, Nursing 
Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Chair and Professor of Pathology, SDM 
Carolina Lopez, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Vet 
Michael McGarvey, Associate Professor of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, PSOM
Katherine Milkman, Associate Professor, Operations, Information and Decisions, Wharton
Eve Troutt Powell, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, SAS 
Santosh Venkatesh, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, SEAS, and Chair-Elect, Faculty Senate
Melissa Wilde, Associate Professor, Sociology, SAS 
Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer& Information Science, Law 

Students
Kat McKay, C’17 (President of the Undergraduate Assembly)
Gaurav Shukla, student in the Master of Medical Physics Program, SAS (President of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly)
Jane Xiao, C’17 (External Chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education)
Alex Yang, doctoral candidate, SEAS (Vice President of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly)

Ex Officio
Joann Mitchell, Vice President for Institutional Affairs

Staff
Adam P. Michaels, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the President

Consultants
John Isaacson, Isaacson, Miller
John Muckle, Isaacson, Miller

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