Katherine Fleming

Katherine E. Fleming is president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the world’s premiere private philanthropic institution supporting the visual arts. An accomplished academic leader and internationally recognised scholar of Mediterranean history, religion, and culture, she served as provost of New York University from 2016 to 2022. Fleming was instrumental in NYU’s development as a research powerhouse and in its emergence as one of the world’s most global institutions, leading NYU’s strategy in Europe. She has served as the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at NYU; as a long-standing associate professor of history at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris; and, from 2012 to 2016, as president of the board of the University of Piraeus, Greece. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, chevalier in the French Legion of Honor, and commander in the Greek Order of Beneficence, and was granted honorary Greek citizenship in 2015 for her contributions to Greek culture and society. Fleming holds degrees from Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley.