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Harvard Keeps Alan Garber as President Through Mid-2027

  • School leader vows to focus on promoting academic excellence
  • Search for eventual successor will begin in 2026, school says
Alan Garber arrives at the 2024 Commencement at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Photographer: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe/Getty Images
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Harvard University will keep Alan Garber as its president until mid-2027, giving him three more years in the job after he took over as interim leader when Claudine Gay resigned in January.

A “full-scale search for his eventual successor” will start in the late spring or early summer of 2026, Harvard said in a statement Friday. Garber, a 69-year-old physician and economist, had previously served as university provost at the oldest and richest US college.