Born: Seoul in 1959 and moved to Muscatine, Iowa, when he was 5, where he was valedictorian and class president.
Education: BA from Brown University; MD from Harvard Medical School; and PhD from Harvard’s Department of Anthropology.
Career highlights: Dartmouth College president (first Asian-American to lead an Ivy League school). Director of the HIV/AIDS department at World Health Organization. Cofounder of Partners in Health, which supports programs in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, and the United States. It has started treatment programs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in more than 40 countries. Professor at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Director of the Fran?ois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard’s School of Public Health.
