Drew Faust

Drew Faust

CATHARINE DREW GILPIN FAUST is a historian and was the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2014, she was ranked by Forbes as the 33rd most powerful woman in the world.