14 Facts About Jonathan Fanton

Jonathan F Fanton was born on 1943 and is the immediate past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jonathan Fanton previously served as the president of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation from 1999 to 2009 and as the president of The New School for Social Research from 1982 to 1999.

Jonathan Fanton has served as board chair for several organizations, including Human Rights Watch, the Security Council Report, and the New York State Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.

Jonathan Fanton serves on the boards of Scholars At Risk, the World Refugee and Migration Council, the International Integrity Initiative, the Jerome Greene Foundation, American University Afghanistan, American Exchange Project and the European Humanities University.

Jonathan Fanton serves as a member of the advisory board of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs and Roosevelt House at Hunter College.

Jonathan Fanton is a life trustee of Human Rights Watch and The Asian Cultural Council.

Jonathan Fanton was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Jonathan Fanton went on to serve at Yale as associate provost and as an assistant to President Kingman Brewster.

Jonathan Fanton subsequently served as vice president for planning at the University of Chicago.

In 1982, Jonathan Fanton was inaugurated president of The New School for Social Research in New York City, a leadership position that he held for 17 years.

From 2009 to 2014, Jonathan Fanton was interim director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

Jonathan Fanton was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.

Jonathan Fanton is the author of Foundations and Civil Society, Volumes I and II and The University and Civil Society, Volumes I and II.

Jonathan Fanton is co-editor of John Brown: Great Lives Observed and The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age.