 Gabriella De Ferrari • Doctor of Letters
Gabriella De Ferrari, an art historian, was born in Peru and educated in the United States. She served as curator and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, curator of Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, and assistant director of the Fogg Art Museum. De Ferrari serves on the boards of the Harvard University Art Museums, The New School University, and the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy. She chairs the advisory board for the gallery at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is on the visiting committee for 19th- and 20th-century and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum, and is a member of the Museum of Modern Art's International Council She was the first chair of the Colby College Museum of Art’s Board of Governors. De Ferrari wrote a novel, A Cloud on Sand, and a memoir, Gringa Latina, and is currently working on a book about New York. A contributing editor for Travel and Leisure, she also writes for BOMB, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair.
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 Robert E. Diamond Jr. ’73 • Doctor of Laws
Robert E. Diamond Jr. ’73 is president of Barclays PLC and chief executive of Investment Banking and Investment Management, comprising Barclays Capital, Barclays Global Investors, and Barclays Wealth. He joined Barclays in 1996 and has been a member of the Barclays Group Executive Committee since 1997. Earlier he was vice chairman and head of Global Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange at Credit Suisse First Boston and was managing director and head of European/Asian Fixed Income Trading for Morgan Stanley International. A trustee of Colby and of the American School in London, he serves on the advisory board of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University and on the board of directors at the Institute of International Finance. |
 Amory Lovins • Doctor of Laws
Amory Lovins is cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute and chairman of Fiberforge, Inc. A physicist and MacArthur Fellow, he has published 29 books and hundreds of papers, has won “Alternative Nobel,” Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold medals, and Heinz, Lindbergh, Jean Meyer, World Technology, and Time “Hero for the Planet” awards. He advises governments and major firms worldwide on advanced energy and resource efficiency and has led the technical redesign of $30-billion worth of facilities in 29 sectors to achieve large energy savings, typically at lower capital cost. |
 David Simon • Doctor of Letters
David Simon, author, journalist, and television writer-producer, began as a police reporter at the Baltimore Sun. His experiences on the crime beat led to his Edgar Award-winning book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, an account of the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit that became the basis for NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street. Simon co-wrote and produced the Emmy-award winning miniseries The Corner for HBO and recently completed the fifth season of HBO’s The Wire. Simon has received three George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting, a Writers Guild Award for best writing in an episodic drama, and a Humanitas Award in the same category. Simon currently freelances for the Washington Post, the New Republic, and Details magazine. Photo Credit: Douglas Sonders
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 Sunita Williams • Doctor of Science
Sunita Williams has logged more than 2,770 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft and has spent 195 days in space, a record among female astronauts. A naval aviator, Williams was selected for the astronaut program in 1998. She worked with the Russian Space Agency on its contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) and within NASA on the ISS robotic arm. Her four spacewalks totaling 29 hours and 17 minutes established the world record for women. Williams was awarded two Navy Commendation Medals, a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, a Humanitarian Service Medal, and various other service awards. | |
