Linda Lorimer
Linda Koch Lorimer was Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives at Yale University, where she was responsible for an array of administrative departments. She developed and oversaw Yale's Office of International Affairs and created its Office of Digital Dissemination, which takes the administrative lead in sharing the University's intellectual treasury around the world. She is also the university officer responsible for the Office of Public Affairs and Communications, the Yale Broadcast Center, and the Yale University Press. She serves a liaison to the Association of Yale Alumni. Lorimer has served in a number of roles in the Yale administration and as President of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, now called Randolph College. She holds positions on numerous boards, including having served as board chair of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and vice-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on "The Future of Universities." Early life and education A 1970 graduate of Norfolk Academy, Lorimer graduated from Hollins University in 1974 as valedictorian and was student body president. She graduated from Yale Law School in 1977. While at Yale, she received the Wasserman Leadership Award. Lorimer practiced law in New York City for a year at Davis Polk & Wardwell before returning to Yale as Assistant General Counsel. Early work at Yale and Randolph-Macon Lorimer held a series of administrative positions at Yale between 1978 and 1986, including service as the youngest Associate Provost in the University's history. Then University President and eventual Major League Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti praised Lorimer as Yale's "utility infielder," and wrote in 1983 that "no one has served Yale better in her time." From 1986 to 1993, Lorimer served as President of Randolph–Macon Woman's College in her home state of Virginia, where she helped the college regain financial stability, boost enrollment, and complete a successful capital campaign. Later Yale work Lorimer was a member of the Yale Corporation, the University's governing board, from 1990 to 1993. At the request of newly elected University President Richard Levin, Lorimer returned to Yale in 1993 to serve as Secretary of the Yale Corporation — a position she held until 2012. Her portfolio has grown extensively over the years. She became Secretary and Vice President in 1995 and was appointed Vice President of the University in 2012. Levin has described her as his "strategic partner from the first day" of his presidency and the "best operating executive" he's ever seen. Lorimer has been responsible for the growth and development of a variety of initiatives for Yale, including the launch of the Office of New Haven Affairs, the Tercentennial Initiative, the Office of International Affairs, and the Office of Digital Dissemination. In recent years, she helped to develop an ambitious strategy and numerous programs for internationalizing Yale. At Yale's Office of International Affairs, Lorimer continues to oversee the support of all of Yale's efforts to pursue strategic partnerships abroad, and is the liaison to Yale's Office of International Students and Scholars. She is also responsible for