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Daniel R. Porterfield

President and CEO of the Aspen Institute

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Dan Porterfield is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He was previously president of Franklin and Marshall College, which he led in tripling its percentage of low-income students and doubling its percentage of domestic students of color. Prior to this, Porterfield was senior vice president for strategic development and an English professor at Georgetown University and a senior public affairs official at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Council on Foreign Relations. Porterfield was named a 2016 White House Champion of Change and is the author of "Mindset Matters: The Power of College to Activate Lifelong Growth."