As American universities face the pressures of technological innovation and the uncertain federal funding landscape for higher education and research, The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. is pleased to announce that David Rubenstein will interview Alan M. Garber, President of Harvard University. The lunch will be held on Wednesday, July 23, 2026. The reception will begin at 11:00 a.m., followed by the luncheon and program at 12:00 p.m., ending promptly at 1:30 p.m.
Alan M. Garber leads one of the world's most influential academic institutions, overseeing a university that has produced more than 160 Nobel laureates and has shaped breakthroughs across medicine, law, government, business, and the sciences. Under his leadership, Harvard enrolls nearly 25,000 students across 13 schools and institutes, employs over 20,000 faculty and staff, and maintains an endowment of approximately $56.9 billion, the largest of any university in the world.
Before becoming president, he served as Harvard's provost and chief academic officer for more than a decade. Prior to Harvard, he was the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor at Stanford University, where he founded the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, and served as a Staff Physician at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.
Garber is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard and an M.D. with research honors from Stanford.
