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Sylvia Mary Burwell (née Mathews; born June 23, 1965) is an American government and non-profit executive who was the 15th president of American University from June 1, 2017 to June 30, 2024. Burwell is the first woman to serve as the university's president.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell is American University's 15th president and the first woman to serve as president. President Burwell is a broad-ranging, effective leader who has served at the highest levels of government, philanthropy, and academia.
Sep 1, 2023 · Burwell took the job as AU’s president with a background in public health, rather than education. She took the position at AU after serving as President Obama’s secretary of health and human services and she says this helped her approach mental health on the cutting edge.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell was born in 1965 in Hinton, West Virginia. She graduated with a degree in government from Harvard University in 1987 and went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, graduating with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics.
Jul 1, 2017 · Throngs of people began gathering just before 9 a.m. The woman they were so eager to meet, AU president Sylvia Mathews Burwell, had arrived for her first day on the job—on a bicycle, with a pack strapped to her back—without fanfare an hour earlier.
- Mike Unger
Sylvia Mathews (Burwell) discusses her long period of service in the Clinton White House. Her interview covers her political background and origins, the 1992 election, the debates over NAFTA ratification, the transition period after the 1992 election, her role in the formation of the National Economic Council (NEC), and her time on that council ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Both have defined the career of Sylvia Burwell. From 2014 to 2017, she served as the 22nd secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leading the trillion-dollar agency during the Ebola and Zika outbreaks and undertaking the most comprehensive reform of the nation’s health care system in a generation.
