Dr. Harold T. Shapiro, President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, served as that institutions 18th president, from 1988 until June 2001. He came to Princeton after 24 years at the University of Michigan, where he served on the faculty and as president from 1980 to 1988.

Dr. Shapiro received a Bachelor’s Degree from McGill University in Montreal and, after five years in business, he enrolled in the Graduate School at Princeton, where he earned a Ph.D. in three years. His fields of special interest included econometrics, mathematical economics, science policy, and, more recently, bioethics.

He is Chair of the Board of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a trustee of the American Jewish Committee and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is sits on many boards, including: the Dow Chemical Company; HCA; The Hastings Center; DeVry, Inc.; Reading is Fundamental; Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics; Merck Vaccine Advisory Board; the U.S. Olympic Committee; Princeton HealthCare Systems; and the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. He served as chair of the National Academies of Sciences Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of Health from July 2002 to July 2003.

From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Shapiro served as chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission; and he was a member and vice chair of President Bush’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1990 to 1992. Along with his predecessor as president of Princeton, he edited Universities and Their Leadership, a compilation of papers presented at a conference on higher education in conjunction with Princeton’s 250 th anniversary in 1996.

Dr. Shapiro is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Dr. Shapiro was appointed to the UMDNJ Board of Trustees in June 2006. His term will expire in 2007.