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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.
A single person shut down the entire U.S. government for the first time in 17 years. Not a congressman, but an unelected woman named Sylvia Burwell who, as the relatively new director of the ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Sylvia M. Burwell, a former Obama administration secretary, is set to step down as American University's president at the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
Aug 8, 2023 · American University announced that this will be Sylvia Burwell's final year as president of the institution. In a video published on AU's Instagram page, Burwell, the first woman to serve as...
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.
Burwell first served the administration of President Barack Obama as director of the Office of Management and Budget before being sworn in as the 22nd Secretary of Health and Human Services on June 9, 2014.
