Three New Trustees Appointed To The Board Of Institute For Advanced Study

Three New Trustees Appointed To The Board Of Institute For Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Dr. Victoria B. Bjorklund, Dr. David Hollinger and Dr. Florian Langenscheidt to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Bjorklund is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where she heads the Firm's Exempt Organizations Group. Dr. Hollinger, who will serve as Academic Trustee for the School of Historical Studies, is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Langenscheidt is a leading author and publisher and is a partner of Langenscheidt Publishing Group, a company that produces a diverse range of bilingual dictionaries, and map, travel and language publications used throughout the world.

Dr. Victoria B. Bjorklund advises public charities, private foundations, boards and donors in her role at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York City. In 2001, Dr. Bjorklund was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to serve as one of the six exempt-organization members on the IRS's Tax Exempt/Government Entities Advisory Committee and was Chair in 2004-2005. From 1989 through 2001, she was director and secretary of Doctors Without Borders, and continues to provide pro bono legal counsel to the organization, as well as to the Robin Hood Foundation. In 1997-1998, Dr. Bjorklund was named a David Rockefeller Fellow in recognition of her role as a rising civic leader. She has received many awards and honors for her work, including the IRS's Commissioner's Award (2003) for her "timely, creative and nimble response to 9/11's unprecedented legal challenges." Dr. Bjorklund writes and speaks extensively on exempt-organization subjects, and is co-author (with Jim Fishman and Dan Kurtz) of New York Nonprofit Law and Practice (Lexis Publications, 1997). She earned her J.D. at Columbia University School of Law, her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University, and her B.A. magna cum laude from Princeton University, where she graduated in three years and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. David Hollinger is a leading scholar who has written extensively on American intellectual history and academe. He was twice a Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute, in 1977-78 and 2000, and will serve as the Academic Trustee for the School. Dr. Hollinger has written and co-edited numerous books and articles relating to educational institutions and history, including the publications Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States (2006); Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (10th anniversary edition, 2006); Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1996); and, co-edited with Cathryn Carson, Reappraising Oppenheimer (2005). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Modern Intellectual History, Comparative Studies in Society and History and the Journal of the History of Ideas and is a Council Member of the History of Science Society. Dr. Hollinger received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also received his M.A., and earned his B.A. at La Verne College. Prior to his appointment at UC Berkeley, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of History, Dr. Hollinger was a Professor at the University of Michigan from 1977 to 1992.

Dr. Florian Langenscheidt

is a highly respected authority on publishing, the future of new media and e-business, and is recognized for his innovative approach and acumen in the arena of publishing in its many forms. As a member of the esteemed Langenscheidt family of publishers, Dr. Langenscheidt headed the 150-year old business from 1986 until 1994, during which time he diversified operations and expanded the company's reach into and across the Internet. He has authored and edited a range of publications and children's books, including Bei uns zu Hause-Prominente erz�hlen von ihrer Kindheit (1995); Hundertmal Mut (1999); Brands of the Century (2004); and The Best of Germany (2006), and is a columnist for the periodicals Capital, Forbes and Max. An active promoter of reading, Dr. Langenscheidt founded the global organization Children for a Better World and is a partner of the German Children and Youth Foundation. He is a member of the board of trustees of the World-Wide Fund for Nature, Stiftung Lesen, Deutsche Olympische Gesellschaft and the Deutsches Museum, and is a founding chairman of the Electronic Publishers Working Party, which represents the German book industry in multimedia and the Internet. Dr. Langenscheidt received his Ph.D. in Advertising at Ludwig Maximilians Universit�t (LMU) in Munich, and earned a Masters in Business Administration at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. As an undergraduate at LMU, he studied German Literature, Journalism and Philosophy.

About the Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world�s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarship � the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge. Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science. It provides for the mentoring of younger scholars by a permanent Faculty of twenty-six, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.

The Institute, founded in 1930, is a private, independent academic institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. Its more than 5,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership in the United States and abroad. Some twenty-one Nobel laureates, and thirty-two out of forty-four Fields Medalists, have been Institute Faculty or Members. Many winners of the Wolf or MacArthur prizes have also been affiliated with the Institute.

About the Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support curiosity-driven research in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science. It provides for the mentoring of scholars by a permanent Faculty of approximately 30, and it ensures the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.

The Institute, founded in 1930, is a private, independent academic institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. Its more than 6,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership throughout the academic world. Thirty-three Nobel Laureates and 40 out of 56 Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf and MacArthur prizes, have been affiliated with the Institute.