Harvard’s resistance in the face of the threats of the Trump administration has a face and a name. Graying beard, small glasses circled in metal, Alan Garber, a former graduate of the prestigious university near Boston, is now opposed to government interference after taking the lead in crisis in 2024.
Specialist in health policies, Alan Graber first spent twenty-five years in Stanford, which he also graduated, before returning to Harvard. In addition to his teacher-researcher cap, he became “provost”, a sort of right arm of the presidency, in 2011. In 2024, the fall of the ex-president of Harvard Claudine Gay, accused of plagiarism and complacency vis-à-vis anti-Semitism on the campus, propels him to the head of the university.
First appointed to the interim presidency, Graber tries to pacify the campus after the anti-Israeli demonstrations, establishing a policy of neutrality when tradition wanted Harvard to take political positions, and confirms the end of positive discrimination to comply with the decision
