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Prior to serving as President of NYU for ten years and guiding the University in a successful $1 billion campaign, Dr. Brademas served over two decades as a U.S. Congressman from Indiana, his last two terms as House Majority Whip leading the legislation in education and the arts. He has served as chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation, and Chairman of the American Foundation. Dr. Brademas is a former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he served for five years. He also served on the Boards of the Aspen Institute, New York Stock Exchange, Rockefeller Foundation, Onassis Foundation, Central Committee, and the World Council of Churches. Current Boards also include KOS Pharmaceuticals, Loew's, Oxford University Press - USA, The Spanish Institute, and the Center for National Policy in Washington, DC. He is a member of the committee on Economics Development, Council on Foreign Relations, Council on the United States and Spain and U.S. - Japan foundation, and served on the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government. A former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he also served on the Board of the Overseers of Harvard and has been awarded 51 honorary degrees by other colleges and universities. He is a Trustee of New York University and Life Trustee of the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, serves on the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France. | 