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MIT Corporation Chairman Dana G. Mead announced in January 2004 the formation of the two panels charged with leading the Institute’s search for a successor to President Charles M. Vest.

The two groups, the Corporation Committee on the Presidency (CCOP) and the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Corporation on the presidential search (FAC), held their first joint meeting on Thursday, January 8, 2004 thus officially launching the search for MIT’s 16th president.

Dr. Mead appointed James A. Champy, Chairman of Consulting of Perot Systems Corporation, to chair the Corporation committee. The faculty officers appointed Jerome I. Friedman, Institute Professor and professor of Physics, to chair the faculty committee. Professor Rafael Bras, Chair of the MIT Faculty, had asked the faculty for suggestions for FAC membership, and received some 200 responses. The faculty officers used that information to assemble the full membership of the committee.

The members of both the Corporation and faculty advisory committees include:


Corporation Committee on the Presidency		Faculty Advisory Committee to the Corporation on the Presidential Search

Chair: Mr. James A. Champy ’63 Chairman of Consulting Perot Systems Corporation Boston, MA Members: W. Gerald Austen, M.D. '51 Edward D. Churchill Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA Mr. Gordon M. Binder Managing Director Coastview Capital, LLC Los Angeles, CA Mr. Denis A. Bovin '69 Vice Chairman - Investment Banking Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. New York, NY Mr. Dedric A. Carter '98 Principal American Management Systems Arlington, VA Dr. Arthur Gelb '61 President Four Sigma Corporation Woburn, MA Professor Edie N. Goldenberg '67 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Dr. Paul E. Gray '54 Professor of Electrical Engineering and President Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Dr. Dana G. Mead (ex officio) '67 Chairman of the Corporation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Dr. Paula J. Olsiewski (ex officio) '79 President of the MIT Alumni Association Alfred P. Sloan Foundation New York, NY Dr. Frank Press Principal The Washington Advisory Group Washington, DC Dr. Kenan E. Sahin '63 President and Founder TIAX LLC Boston, MA Ms. Susan E. Whitehead Vice Chairman Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Wellesley Hills, MA Mrs. Barrie R. Zesiger Managing Director Zesiger Capital Group, LLC Rowayton, CT Former chairs of the Corporation will serve as consultants to the Corporation Committee on the Presidency. They are: Mr. Alexander V. d'Arbeloff '49 Honorary Chairman and Professor of the Practice Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mr. Howard W. Johnson President Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. David S. Saxon '41 President Emeritus, University of California Dr. Kirk D. Kolenbrander, Special Assistant to the President and Chancellor, will serve the committee as Assistant to the Chair and CCOP Secretary.		Chair: Jerome I. Friedman, Institute Professor and Professor of Physics Members: Rafael L. Bras '72, Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Chair of the Faculty (ex-officio) Sylvia T. Ceyer, J. C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry Peter Diamond '63, Institute Professor and Professor of Economics Lorna J. Gibson, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering Stephen C. Graves, Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science and Engineering Systems Paula T. Hammond '84, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Kenneth Manning, Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and the History of Science; Secretary of the Faculty Wanda J. Orlikowski, Eaton Peabody Professor of Communications Sciences L. Rafael Reif, Professor of Electrical Engineering Paola M. Rizzoli, Professor of Physical Oceanography, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Associate Chair of the Faculty Bishwapriya Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning Isadore M. Singer, Institute Professor and Professor of Mathematics Marcus A. Thompson, Robert R. Taylor Professor of Music Bruce Tidor, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Computer Science Susumu Tonegawa, Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Sheila Widnall '60, Institute Professor and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

The two committees worked together closely throughout the search process.