Debora Spar Biography

On July 1, 2008, Debora L. Spar became the seventh president of Barnard College. Since her arrival at the College, Spar has been a vocal proponent of women’s leadership and education leading initiatives that include the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, an interdisciplinary center devoted to learning the practice and theory of women's leadership, and Barnard’s Global Symposium series, an annual gathering of accomplished high-profile female leaders held each year in a different location around the world. As a trained political scientist, Spar scholarly research focuses on issues of international political economies, examining how rules are formed in new or emerging markets and how firms and governments work together to shape the evolving global economy. She is the author of numerous books namely Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Invention, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet (2001) and The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception (2006) and Wonder Women: Sex, Power and the Quest for Perfection. Spar is a Georgetown University School of Foreign Service graduate, and received her doctorate in government from Harvard. She is also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently serves as a trustee of the Nightingale-Bamford School and a director of Goldman Sachs. Spar was the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration before coming to Barnard, and had served as senior associate dean of faculty research and development at Harvard Business School. She taught some courses relating to comparative capitalism, the politics of international business, and economic development at Harvard. She’s a happy mum to three children and married to architect, Miltos Catomeris.

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