Linda Wilson

Linda S. Wilson is president emerita of Radcliffe College and a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She served as president of Radcliffe for a
decade. Previously, she was vice president for research at the University of Michigan, served in the senior administrations of the University of Illinois and Washington University, St. Louis, and was a research faculty member of the University of Maryland.

She is a Trustee of the Committee on Economic Development, a Director of Myriad Genetics, Inc. and Inacom, Inc., and Honorary Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a member of the Board of Visitors for the University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science, and a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of Newcomb College. Previously, Ms. Wilson served as a Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a Director of Citizen's Financial Group, Inc. and Value Line, Inc., a member of the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute, a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences Government-University -Industry Research Roundtable, and as a member of the National Commission on Research. She chaired the National Research Council's Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel for six years. She served on the Council of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, on the IOM Committee on Government-Industry Research Collaboration in Biomedical Research and Education, and on the IOM Committee on the National Institutes of Health Research Priority-Setting Process. She also served on the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government Task Force on Science, Technology and the States. She was a member of the Director's Advisory Council of the National Science Foundation for nine years and served on numerous advisory committees established by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as on committees of the American Council on Education, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, the Council of Graduate Schools, the Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Chemical Society.

Ms. Wilson received a Bachelor's degree from Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University, and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin. She received an Honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Newcomb College, Tulane University, an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Maryland, the distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin, a Centennial Award from Newcomb College, the Radcliffe Medal from Radcliffe College, and other honors.

She was appointed as one of ICANN's nine initial directors in October 1998 and served until 26 June 2003.