UC Berkeley's Board of Visitors provides advice and support to the chancellor, executive vice chancellor and provost, and campus leadership. While the UC Regents have overall fiduciary responsibility for the system’s ten campuses, much responsibility is devolved to the campus level. At Berkeley, the chancellor’s leadership is strengthened by having an impartial, external group of advisors known as the Board of Visitors. The types of activities the board engages in are: considering the opportunities and risks facing the university, advising the campus on long-term strategy, helping to shape and advance key initiatives, reviewing and consulting on Berkeley’s annual operating and capital budgets and plans, and reviewing significant capital projects. Board members also advocate for the university with donors, the public, and policymakers.
The Board of Visitors is composed of 18 to 24 outstanding members of the UC Berkeley community. In addition, the chair of the UC Berkeley Foundation (UCBF) serves as a voting ex-officio member of the Board of Visitors throughout his or her tenure as UCBF chair.
The board currently meets three times per year. It is supported by the chancellor’s chief of staff Khira Griscavage and project director Erin McDevitt. For more information, contact boardofvisitors@berkeley.edu.
Board Membership
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Barbara Bass Bakar CEO, Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation; Founder and President, Achieve San Francisco, CA |
Danville, CA |
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Susan C. Chamberlin (M.B.A. ‘87) Co-founder and Director, Chamberlin Family Foundation Richmond, CA |
Peter A. Chernin (B.A. ‘73), Co-Chair CEO, The Chernin Group Playa Vista, CA |
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Barbara J. Desoer (M.B.A. ’77) Thousand Oaks, CA |
Paul E. Jacobs (B.S. ’84, M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’89), Co-Chair Inventor/Investor San Diego, CA |
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Founding Partner, Kapor Capital Oakland, CA |
James Koshland Retired Partner, DLA Piper Atherton, CA |
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Hillsborough, CA |
Matt Levin (B.S. '88) Boston, MA |
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Founder and Principal Investor, Advance Global Capital Ltd. San Francisco, CA |
Ricardo Mora (B.A. ’88) Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY |
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President, Fox Family Los Angeles, CA |
Barbro S. Osher Honorary Consul General of Sweden San Francisco, CA |
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Eric Schmidt (M.S. ’79, Ph.D. ’82) Technical Advisor, Alphabet Inc. Mountain View, CA |
Nathaniel “Nat” Simons (B.A. ’89, M.A. ’95) Co-founder, Prelude Ventures San Francisco, CA |
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Larry W. Sonsini (B.A. '63, J.D. '66) Senior and Founding Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC Palo Alto, CA |
Nadine Tang (M.S. W. ’75) Berkeley, CA |
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Cher Wang (B.A. ’82) Chairman, HTC Corporation Taipei, Taiwan |
Chairman Emeritus, Citigroup; CEO Casa Rosa Ventures New York, NY |