Maria Klawe joined Math for America as president in late 2023 after a 17-year term as Harvey Mudd College’s fifth president.
Before joining Harvey Mudd, she served as dean of engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University. Klawe joined Princeton from the University of British Columbia, where she served in various roles from 1988 to 2002. Before then, Klawe spent eight years with IBM Research in California and two years at the University of Toronto.
She received her Ph.D. (1977) and B.Sc. (1973) in mathematics from the University of Alberta. Klawe is a board member of Phenome Health, EdReports and the Museum of Mathematics (MoMath). She has also served as a founding advisory board member of Parity.org, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a trustee for the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. Fortune ranked Klawe 17th on its 2014 list of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.”