New York, New York, March 9, 2023 — Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today during its quarterly meeting that two new members have been named to its board of trustees. Astrid S. Tuminez, president of Utah Valley University and a former program officer at the Corporation, is joined by returning trustee Stephen A. Oxman, senior advisor at Morgan Stanley, who previously served on the Corporation’s board from 2011 to 2019. Each will serve a four-year term.
“On behalf of the entire board of trustees and staff, we are delighted to welcome — in fact, to welcome back — Astrid Tuminez and Stephen Oxman to Carnegie Corporation of New York. Both have been important contributors to and advocates for the Corporation over the years, and I am deeply grateful for their commitment to our work,” said Thomas H. Kean, chairman of the board of trustees and former governor of New Jersey.
“I am very much looking forward to working with Astrid and Steve. Both have longstanding connections to the Corporation, and we are delighted to welcome them back,” said Dame Louise Richardson, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. “Astrid Tuminez is a powerful advocate on behalf of education. Her career, expertise, and the breadth of her knowledge, not to mention her experience as a program officer during her time at the Corporation, will bring fascinating insights to our work. Steven Oxman’s wide-ranging expertise — in business, in international affairs, in the law, and in philanthropy — make him a trusted counselor and an invaluable member of the board of trustees. My colleagues join me in welcoming them to the board.”
Astrid S. Tuminez is president of Utah Valley University, and is the institution’s first female president. Prior to Utah Valley University, Tuminez was the regional director of corporate, external, and legal affairs for Microsoft in Southeast Asia. She has also served as the vice dean of research and assistant dean of executive education at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore), where she trained over 2,000 government officials and private-sector professionals in leadership and organizational change. Other previous positions include senior consultant to the U.S. Institute of Peace, director of research at AIG Global Investment, program officer at Carnegie Corporation of New York, and director of the Moscow office of the Harvard Project on Strengthening Democratic Institutions. Tuminez holds a BA from Brigham Young University, an MA from Harvard University, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more here.
Stephen A. Oxman is a senior advisor at Morgan Stanley. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 1999, Oxman was a founding senior managing director of BT Wolfensohn and a senior partner at Wolfensohn & Co. In 1993, Oxman was appointed assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs by President Bill Clinton, serving in that capacity through August 1994. Prior to that appointment, he was a managing director of the investment banking firm Wasserstein Perella & Co., deputy chairman of Wasserstein Perella International, and litigation partner in the law firm Shearman & Sterling. Other previous positions include executive assistant to the deputy secretary of state and associate at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Oxman holds a BA magna cum laude from Princeton University, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD from the University of Oxford. Read more here.
The new trustees were elected to the board by unanimous vote and started their terms with the Corporation on March 9, 2023. View the full list of Corporation trustees here.