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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.