The 19th president of Columbia University, one of the eight Ivy League Universities in America, and former president of the University of Michigan.
In 2021, Lee Bollinger was one out of seven Jewish Ivy League presidents.
In 2010, Bollinger was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York board of directors. He is also a noted legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech, and has been at the center of two notable Supreme Court cases regarding affirmative action in admissions processes.
January 5, 2022 Academia