Diana Chapman Walsh

Diana Chapman Walsh serves on the governing boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the Corporation and its Executive Committee); the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; the Kaiser Family Foundation; 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) where she continues as trustee emerita.

Her term as president of Wellesley College (1993-2007) was marked by educational innovation, including a revision of the curriculum and expanded programs in global education, the humanities, internships and service learning, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and religious and spiritual life.

President Walsh evolved a distinctive style of reflective leadership rooted in a network of resilient partnerships and anchored in the belief that trustworthy leadership starts from within.