Daniel R. Porterfield Named The Next President & CEO Of The Aspen Institute

Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D., President of Franklin & Marshall College (F&M), was recently named the next President and CEO of the Aspen Institute (Aspen). He will succeed Walter Isaacson, effective June 1, 2018. For the next several months, while Mr. Porterfield is completing the academic year at F&M, he will be attending various Aspen Institute meetings and events to get to know the Aspen Institute staff and programs.

Mr. Porterfield stood out to Aspen’s search committee as the right leader for this moment in the Institute’s history. An innovative and strategic thinker, Mr . . .