“I am very interested in the issues of equality of women and appointment of women as professors,” she said, “at this point there seems to be a lot of goodwill and I would like to see continued progress.”

She is currently a special counsel at Schulte, Roth, and Zabel, a law firm in New York City.

Adams, a graduate of the College and of Harvard Business School, is a former Dean for Finance and Business at the Harvard Medical School. He also served as the Commissioner of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1998.

He is currently the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.

Rausing, who received and A.M. from Harvard in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1993, is a senior research fellow in history at Imperial College, London. She is also a philanthropist, and has donated millions of dollars to various causes around the world, including Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program and the Harvard University Library Open Collection Program.

—Staff writer Adam M. Guren can be reached at guren@fas.harvard.edu.