Jennifer Raab
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Jennifer J. Raab is the 13th and current president of Hunter College of the City University of New York holding this position since June 2001. She is responsible for overseeing the functions of CUNY's largest college and its various affiliates such as the Hunter College High School for gifted students.
[edit] Education
Raab attended Hunter College High School and went on to receive a B.A. with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University. She received a Master's in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is also a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
[edit] Career
Raab worked for several years as a litigator at two of the nation's most prestigious law firms, Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She was also special projects manager for the South Bronx Development Organization and director of public affairs for the New York City Planning Commission. Raab served for seven years as Chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission under mayor Rudolf Giuliani and on the Charter Revision Commission under mayor Michael Bloomberg.
She is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of Princeton University, Board of Directors of Humanity In Action, The After School Corporation, Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York, and a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. She has been serving as the president of Hunter College since 2001.
[edit] References and Links
[1]- biography at the Hunter College website
