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David Hamburg
Advisor to the Board of Directors
David Hamburg is President Emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York, after having been President from 1983-97. He received his A.B. (1944) and his M.D. (1947) degrees from Indiana University. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from 1961-72 and Reed-Hodgson professor of Human Biology at Stanford University from 1972-76; President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-80; Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-83. He served as President then Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984-86).
Under Dr. Hamburg’s leadership, Carnegie Corporation played an active role in reducing nuclear danger, moving toward the resolution of the Cold War, and working toward democracy in South Africa. In 1994, he established the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Conflict, which he co-chaired with Cyrus Vance. The commission published a synthesis of these activities under the title, Preventing Deadly Conflict.
He published No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict in 2002. He and his wife, Betty, have completed a book published in 2004 by Oxford University Press entitled, Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development.
