Leadership

Officers

Chair of the Board of Trustees
Bill Huyett, Concord, MA

Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees
Saul J. Pannell, Boston, MA

Secretary of the MBL Corporation
Lori A. Berko, University of Chicago

Director
Nipam H. Patel, Marine Biological Laboratory

Chief Financial Officer
Mary S. Harrington, Marine Biological Laboratory

Board Committee Leadership

Executive Committee
Chair: Bill Huyett

Audit and Risk Committee
Chair: Rob Rosiello

Academic Affairs Committee
Chair: Dyann F. Wirth

Development Committee
Chair: Christopher G. Kennedy

Financial Committee
Chair: Saul J. Pannell

Nominating and Governance Committee 
Chair: Samme Thompson

Trustees

A. Paul Alivisatos, PhD, President, University of Chicago
Katherine Baicker, PhD, Provost, University of Chicago
Peter D. Barbey, MBA, President, Barbey Capital Management
Juan de Pablo, PhD, Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology; Executive Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
Susan M. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Chief Strategist, LSRT Associates
Margaret J. Fofonoff, BA, Executive Producer, Art Lab Productions
David A. Greene, EdD, President, Colby College
Avram Hershko, MD, PhD, Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Catherine E. Hibbitt, DVM, Teacher (Retired), Lincoln School
Bill Huyett, Director Emeritus, McKinsey and Company
Dave Johnson, MBA, Advisory Partner, Bain & Company
Constance T. Keller, MBA, Hobe Sound, FL
Christopher G. Kennedy, MBA, Chairman Emeritus, Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc.
Jean A. King, PhD, Peterson Family Dean of Arts & Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ethan A. Lerner, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
William A. Linton, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Promega Corporation
Walter E. Massey, PhD,  University Citizen, The University of Chicago
John W. McCarter, Jr., MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), The Field Museum
Brien O’Brien, BS, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Port Capital
Ronald P. O’Hanley, MBA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, State Street Corporation
Saul J. Pannell, MBA, Partner (Retired), Wellington Management Company
Max Paul Rosen, MD, MPH, UMass Memorial Health Chair in Radiology, UMass Memorial Medical Center & UMass Chan Medical School
Robert Rosiello, MBA, Executive Partner, Flagship Pioneering
John W. Rowe, MD, Julius B. Richmond Professor of Health Policy and Aging, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Timothy A. Springer, PhD, Latham Family Professor of Pediatrics, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Springer Lab
Catherine Mahoney Thomas, President, Whitehall Foundation, Inc.
Samme L. Thompson, MBA, President, Telit Associates, Inc.
Lewis T. “Rusty” Williams, MD, PhD, Executive and Board Member in the Life Sciences space
Dyann F. Wirth, PhD, Richard Pearson Strong Professor, Dept of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

MBL Bylaws as of December 9, 2020
Board of Trustees Conflict of Interest Policy

Nipam Patel, Ph.D., is Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the MBL in 2018 from University of California, Berkeley, where he was Professor and Co-chair of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. Patel is the 20th scientist to serve as MBL Director since its founding in 1888.

Research

Anne W. Sylvester
Director, Division of Research
Email Anne Sylvester

Education

Linda Hyman
Burroughs Wellcome Director of Education
Email Linda Hyman