Board of Trustees Committee Membership

Executive

Jamie Levitt, Chair 
Anne Chao
Pamela Flaherty
Judy Freyer
Aftab Hussain ME’97, Vice Chair
Marshall Rafal ChE'63 (Alumni Trustee)
Stephen Welby ChE'87 (Alumni Trustee)

Governance

Jamie Levitt, Chair
Tre Brown ME'26 (Student Trustee)
Pamela Flaherty 
Dana Hughes
James Haywood Rolling Jr. A'88 (Alumni Trustee)
Avery Singer A'10 (Alumni Trustee)

Finance and Business Affairs*

Aftab Hussain ME’97, Chair
Anna Brook BSE'04 (Alumni Trustee)
Joseph Dobronyi
Brian Feil
Judy Freyer
Anthony Ianno EE'85 (Alumni Trustee)

Audit

Stephen Welby ChE'87 (Alumni Trustee), Chair
Brian Feil
Judy Freyer
Anthony Ianno EE'85 (Alumni Trustee)

Investment

Judy Freyer, Chair
Ian D'Souza (Non-trustee observer)
Raudline Etienne (Non-trustee)
Dana Hughes
Malcolm King EE'97 (Non-trustee observer)
Lou Manzione ChE'75 (Non-trustee observer) 
Stephen Welby ChE'87 (Alumni Trustee)

Academic & Student Affairs

Anne Chao, Chair
Tre Brown ME'26 (Student Trustee)
Maurice Cox AR'83
Marshall Rafal ChE'63 (Alumni Trustee)
James Haywood Rolling Jr. A'88 (Alumni Trustee)
Doug Sharrott EE'83
Rachel Whitlow A'94 (Alumni Trustee)
Angie Zuo AR'29 (Student Trustee)

Alumni Affairs and Development

Marshall Rafal ChE'63 (Alumni Trustee), Chair
Anna Brook BSE'04 (Alumni Trustee)
Anne Chao
Maurice Cox AR'83
Doug Sharrott EE'83
Avery Singer A'10 (Alumni Trustee)
Rachel Whitlow A'94 (Alumni Trustee)
Angie Zuo AR'29 (Student Trustee)

Appointed Committee

Compensation 

Jamie Levitt, Chair
Pamela Flaherty
Aftab Hussain ME'97

*In 2024, the Free Education Committee was formally folded into the Finance and Business Affairs Committee

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.