Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Appointed to Institute Board of Trustees
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The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer to its Board of Trustees, effective October 29, 2016.
Lerman-Neubauer is a trustee of the Neubauer Family Foundation and owns a boutique communications practice. A corporate communications specialist, Lerman-Neubauer has always been interested in the nexus of art, technology, and commerce. She created the first private television network in the financial services industry (before the internet) for Merrill Lynch; launched Unisys globally, after the merger between Burroughs and Sperry; and helped Time Warner to introduce the DVD. She began her career as a documentary filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. She currently writes special event speeches and consults on strategic and marketing communications.
In 2012, Lerman-Neubauer and her husband Joseph Neubauer enabled the creation of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, which creates new communities of inquiry through faculty research projects, a global fellows initiative, and exhibitions, and explores novel approaches to complex human questions. Although the Collegium was initially focused on stimulating innovative research in the humanities, scholars were so interested in its multidisciplinary aspect that, eventually, all faculties on campus participated, including the law school, business school, and medical center.
Lerman-Neubauer has served on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera since 1999, and she is a strong advocate for innovative audience development. The Neubauer Family Foundation is the founding sponsor of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcasts, which now reach opera fans in more than 70 countries, enabling approximately 350,000 people to enjoy the same live broadcast at the same time.
Lerman-Neubauer also serves on the Board of the Jewish Museum of New York, and has served on the Boards of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Brandeis University. She was honored in 2013 as a University Medalist by the University of Chicago, and upon the recommendation of Pope Francis, was named a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory in 2016.
About the Institute
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support curiosity-driven research in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science. It provides for the mentoring of scholars by a permanent Faculty of approximately 30, and it ensures the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.
The Institute, founded in 1930, is a private, independent academic institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. Its more than 6,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership throughout the academic world. Thirty-three Nobel Laureates and 41 out of 56 Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf and MacArthur prizes, have been affiliated with the Institute.
