Leadership
Claire Shipman '86, SIPA'94
Acting President of the University
Angela V. Olinto, PhD
Provost of the University
Josef Sorett, PhD
Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education
Officers
Josef Sorett
Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education
B.S., Oral Roberts, 1996; M.Div., Boston University, 2000; Ph.D., Harvard, 2008
Corey S. Aronstam
Senior Associate Dean for Columbia College Development and Alumni Relations and Deputy Vice President for Development, Columbia College and Arts and Sciences
B.A., Nazareth, 1998; M.B.A., Wagner, 2001
Lisa Hollibaugh
Dean of Academic Affairs
B.A., Rice, 1990; M.A., Columbia, 1996; Ph.D., 2005
Jessica Marinaccio
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid
A.B., Harvard, 1991; M.Ed., 1994
Shannon Márquez
Dean of Undergraduate Global Engagement
B.S.M.E., Prairie View A&M University, 1992; M.Eng, Texas A&M University, 1993; Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill, 1998
James T. McMenamin Jr.
Senior Associate Dean for Columbia College Development and Senior Director of Principal Gifts, Office of Alumni and Development
B.A., Johns Hopkins, 1971
Andrew Plaa
Dean of Advising for Columbia College and Columbia Engineering, James H. and Christine Turk Berick Center for Student Advising
B.A., McGill (Canada), 1983; M.A., Columbia, 1986; M.Phil., 1987; Ph.D., 1994
Kavita Sharma
Dean of Career Education
B.Sc., Southampton, 1989; M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1991; M.A., Teachers College, 2012
2024–25 Board of Visitors
Michael J. Schmidtberger Esq. ’82, LAW’85
Chair
Peter A. Hatch ’92
Vice Chair
Sharmila Atmosudirdjo Tuttle ’96, SIPA’05
Vice Chair
Dean Josef Sorett
Jonathan D. Bram ’87
Leslie Gittess Brodsky ’88
Germaine Choe ’95
Maurice Coleman ’91, SIPA’99
James H. Dignan ’91
Michelle A. Esposito ’96
Andrew A. Fink ’91, LAW’94
Dede Gardner ’90
Michelle Jacobson Goldberg ’91
Robert J. Grey ’72
Alicia Guevara ’94
Britta Wilson Jacobson ’96
Michelle Estilo Kaiser '87, PH'92, VPS'97
Mojdeh L. Khaghan, Esq. ’88 LW91
Ji Liu
Nicholas Paul Leone ’88
Christopher McGowan '92
Eric A. Mendelson ’87, BUS’89
Vijay Mohan ’01
Rachel Neuhut '03, VPS'07
Jen Maxfield Ostfeld ’99, JRN’00
Luis Penalver '89
Renan Pierre ’86, SEAS’87
Jenny Fan Raj ’00
John A. Rogovin ’83
Teresa M. Saputo-Crerend ’87, BUS’92
Michael S. Satow ’88
Mozelle W. Thompson Esq. ’76, SIPA’79, LAW’81
Anthony Tutrone '86
William A. von Mueffling ’90 BUS’95
Raymond Yu '89, SEAS'90