Katherine E. Fleming, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and scholar of Mediterranean history, religion, and culture, will deliver a lecture at McCosh 50.
Fleming assumed her post as president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust on August 1, 2022. An accomplished academic leader and internationally recognized scholar, she served as provost of New York University (NYU) from 2016 to 2022. She was instrumental in NYU’s development as a research powerhouse and in its emergence as one of the world’s most global institutions, leading NYU’s strategy in Europe.
She has served as Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at NYU and as a long-standing associate professor of history at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. From 2012 to 2016, she chaired the Board of the University of Piraeus, Greece. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is also Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor and Commander in the Greek Order of Beneficence.
Fleming earned her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, and then taught at various institutions in southern California before moving to NYU in 1998.
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