Maria Klawe

Maria Klawe joined Math for America as president in late 2023 after a 17-year term as Harvey Mudd College’s fifth president. 

Prior to joining HMC, 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 her time at UBC, 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 member of the boards of Phenome Health and the nonprofits, Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics. She has also served as a founding advisory board member of Parity.org, a fellow for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and is a trustee for the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. Klawe was ranked 17 on Fortune’s 2014 list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.