Sylvia Burwell
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Sylvia Mary Burwell is an American government and non-profit executive who is president of the Harvard Board of Overseers and was the 15th president of American University from 2017 to 2024. Burwell was the first woman to serve as the university's president.
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Kathryn Ruemmler, Jack Lew, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, and Alyssa Mastromonaco update President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on the government shutdown, October 1, 2013.
Rural Council meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, February 3, 2016. From left to right: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, President Barack Obama, and Burwell.In their own words 5
Acts of hate, intimidation, and dehumanization cannot be the way we live together and treat one another. This includes physical threats, as well as online harassment and doxxing.
Swastikas, Nazi Slogans Graffitied on Dorm Room Doors at American University The Messanger (21 October 2023)
Fighting Ebola as HHS Secretary, flying around the world for the Gates Foundation, or leading this university.
Sylvia Burwell to step down as American University's president NBC4 Washington (August 8, 2023)
The university has a "great team of leaders in place who are partnering with our great faculty, staff, alumni, and students to shepherd us into our next chapter of impact.
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Sylvia Mary Burwell is an American government and non-profit executive who is president of the Harvard Board of Overseers and was the 15th president of American University from 2017 to 2024. Burwell was the first woman to serve as the university's president. A member of the Democratic Party, Burwell earlier served as the 22nd United States secretary of health and human services from 2014 to 2017 and as 39th director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2013 to 2014.
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