Leslie Cohen Berlowitz

Who is Leslie Cohen Berlowitz?

Leslie Cohen Berlowitz is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berlowitz resigned her position on July 31, 2013 due to revelations that she misrepresented her credentials and work history on several federal grant proposals.

Berlowitz became the Academy's executive officer in 1996 and was later promoted to Chief Executive Officer and President. From 1969 to 1996, Berlowitz was a faculty member and administrator at New York University.

Berlowitz co-edited three books: Restoring Trust in American Business with Jay W. Lorsch and Andy Zelleke, America in Theory with Denis Donoghue and Louis Menand, and Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture with Richard Eric Beard