CAIRO: The Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo (AUC) has elected Richard A. Bartlett as its chairman; Bartlett succeeds B. Boyd Hight. Bartlett is managing director of Resources Holdings, Ltd., a merchant banking firm in New York City. In making the announcement, Hight noted that Bartlett has been active and involved with AUC since his childhood, when his father Thomas A. Bartlett served as the president of AUC from 1963 to 1969. The senior Bartlett has served as interim president during the 2002-2003 academic year. “The university has long been fortunate to have the Bartlett family engaged in its development. The board is pleased that Richard has agreed to take responsibility for the chairmanship and we are confident that together with the university's new president, Lisa Anderson, AUC will continue to serve as a center of excellence in the Middle East.” Hight said. Bartlett was appointed to the board in 2003, and has been chair of the investment committee since 2006. Bartlett received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Prior to joining Resource Holdings, he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, and prior to that, as a law clerk on the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of several private companies. Bartlett is assuming the chairmanship as the university also welcomes its new president, Lisa Anderson. “I am honored by the board's trust in me,” Bartlett said, “and I look forward to working with Dr. Anderson as we continue the work of President David Arnold and Boyd Hight. I have tremendous admiration and respect for the leadership that David and Boyd have provided over the past seven years to the university and it is on their successes that Lisa and I will continue to enhance the university and its global stature.” BM
