Baruch College President Kathleen Waldron
On August 2, 2004, Dr. Kathleen Waldron became the president of Baruch College of the City University of New York, the nation’s most diverse college and home to the largest accredited business school in the country. Baruch College is also one of the most selective public colleges in the northeast with over 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
Before joining Baruch, Dr. Waldron was dean of the School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences of Long Island University Brooklyn Campus. Prior to her transition to higher education administration, Dr. Waldron distinguished herself for thirteen years in several managerial positions at Citibank. From 1996 to 1998, she was a member of the policy committee for Citibank’s Private Bank, which managed over $100 billion in assets of clients from over 40 countries, and offered a full range of investment, credit, and corporate finance products. She was in charge of Global Strategic Planning for the Private Bank as the group achieved revenues of $1.4 billion. From 1991 to 1996, she was President of Citibank International in Miami and from 1988 to 1991, she was director of Citibank’s International Agencies Division, responsible for providing investment and credit services to large not-for-profit entities in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Before joining Citibank, Dr. Waldron worked at Chemical Bank in the Argentine area of the Latin American Division, responsible for government and private sector lending.
Dr. Waldron received her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Latin American History from Indiana University in 1977. She was an assistant professor at Bowdoin College in Maine (1977 – 1981), and a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela in 1981.
Dr. Waldron has served as a member of the Presidential Committee on the Fulbright Program, a member of the Board of Directors of Shands Hospital in Gainesville Florida, a member of the Florida International Bankers Association, a Director of the Fulbright Association, and served on the board of Alpha II, a closed end equity mutual fund, and Accion International, a major microfinance entity. Dr. Waldron is a member of the Latin American Studies Association, the Financial Women’s Association, the Academy of Management, the Economics Club, and the Association for a Better New York. She currently serves as a board member of The Tinker Foundation and is on the Advisory Board of the Women's City Club of New York.
Having lived and traveled extensively in Latin America, Dr. Waldron now makes her home in Manhattan.
