Amy Gutmann

Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann at the University of Pennsylvania commencement in 2009
8th President of the University of Pennsylvania
Incumbent
Assumed office 2004
Preceded by	Judith Rodin
Personal details
Born	(1949-11-19) November 19, 1949 (age 67) Brooklyn, New York
Spouse(s)	Michael W. Doyle
Children	Abigail
Alma mater	Radcliffe College London School of Economics Harvard University
Profession	Political Scientist University administrator
Religion	Judaism

Amy Gutmann (born November 19, 1949) is the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of communication in the Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary faculty appointments in philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education. She is an award-winning political theorist who taught at Princeton University from 1976 to 2004. In 1990, she became the first Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor at Princeton and the founding director of its University Center for Human Values, among the first and best-endowed university-wide multi-disciplinary ethics centers in the world.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Kurt and Beatrice Gutmann, Amy Gutmann was raised in Monroe, New York. Her father fled Nazi Germany in 1934 as a college student and brought his entire family, including four siblings, to join him—first in Bombay, India, and then in the United States after World War II. She told Adam Bryant of the New York Times in June 2011 that

"The biggest influences on me for leading preceded my ever even thinking of myself as a leader—particularly my father’s experience leaving Nazi Germany. Because I would not even exist if it weren’t for his combination of courage and farsightedness. He saw what was coming with Hitler and he took all of his family and left for India. That took a lot of courage. That is always something in the back of my mind."

She is married to Michael Doyle, professor of law and international affairs at Columbia University. They have one daughter, Abigail, who is an associate professor of chemistry at Princeton University.