Diana Chapman Walsh ’66
President emerita of Wellesley College

 
Diana Chapman Walsh is President emerita of Wellesley College, leading the college from 1993 through 2007.

Diana Chapman Walsh is President emerita of Wellesley College, leading the college from 1993 through 2007. She currently serves on the governing board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sitting on the Corporation and its Executive Committee. She recently completed service on the boards of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, which she chaired, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the Mind and Life Institute. She was a director of the State Street Corporation (1999-2007) and a trustee of Amherst College (1998-2010) and is now a trustee emerita. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future at Clark University, Diana writes, speaks, and consults on higher education and leadership and the crisis of climate change.