Meet the Chair and Co-Chairs

Clockwise, from front left:

George A. Weiss, W'65, Chair
Christopher H. Browne, C'69, Co-Chair
Dr. Henry A. Jordan, M'62, RES'67, Co-Chair
Robert M. Levy, WG'74, Co-Chair

George A. Weiss, W'65

Mr. Weiss is president of the money management firm he founded in 1978, and is CEO of Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisors LLC. He is also a regent of the University of Hartford. In 1987, Mr. Weiss established the Say Yes to Education Foundation to guarantee a college education for 112 sixth-grade students at the Belmont School in West Philadelphia. In 1992, he was awarded the Michael Jackson Good Scout Humanitarian Award by the Boy Scouts of America's Los Angeles Area Council.

Mr. Weiss was recently honored with the Cleveland E. Dodge Medal for Distinguished Service. He also earned 5th Degree Black Belts in Taekwon-Do and Kitoshakai last year. He is a Member of the United States Martial Arts team, and an Internationally Certified Master Instructor.

At Penn, Mr. Weiss serves as a member of the Athletics Overseer Board. He also served as Chair of the University Committee for Undergraduate Financial Aid and President of the Connecticut Valley Alumni Club for a number of years. Other past service includes the Alumni Committee on Athletics, the Penn Alumni Board of Directors, the Jeff Davis Association, and the Alumni Club's Advisory Council. Mr. Weiss is a 1985 recipient of the Alumni Award of Merit.

Mr. Weiss has generously supported a wide variety of initiatives and programs across the University. He has been a longtime supporter of athletics programs, including contributions for the Weiss Weight Room, a football endowment, and other priorities. He is committed to student financial aid, establishing a number of endowed funds and challenge grants. He has also provided faculty support in the form of five endowed chairs in three schools, including the George A. Weiss Professor of Computer and Information Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music at the School of Arts and Sciences, the Hum Rosen Professor at SAS, and the George and Diane Weiss Dean and Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education. Mr. Weiss established the Weiss Real Estate Center at the Wharton School and the Weiss Technology House, one of Penn's innovative interdisciplinary initiatives. He also supported the Weiss Center for International Financial Research at the Wharton School. Mr. Weiss has created a special challenge program designed to encourage exceptional donors, ''Men and Women of Pennsylvania,'' to contribute to undergraduate financial aid. This gift provides increased access to Penn for talented students of high potential, a key priority of President Gutmann's Penn Compact.

Christopher H. Browne, C’69

Mr. Browne is a managing director of Tweedy, Browne Company, LLC, and is a member of the firm's management committee. He is also President of the Tweedy, Browne Funds, a mutual fund group, and general partner of TBK Partners and Vanderbilt Partners, two private investment partnerships managed by Tweedy, Browne Company.

He is a trustee of Rockefeller University, where he serves on the Executive Committee and is Chairman of the Nominating Committee. Mr. Browne also serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Program in Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he is a frequent speaker. He is a member of the board of the Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture, where he has lectured on architectural and landscape design.

Mr. Browne currently serves as Chair of the Board of Overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences and the University Committee on Undergraduate Financial Aid. He serves on the Penn Alumni Board of Directors and its Nominations Committee. Mr. Browne is a past president of the Board of Governors of the Penn Club of New York. He created the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics and established five Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professorships in the School of Arts and Sciences. He also established the Christopher H. Browne Trustee Scholarship and has been a major supporter of the Penn Club of New York.

Dr. Henry A. Jordan, M’62, RES’67

Dr. Jordan is the former director of the Institute for Behavioral Education and a former Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. A noted specialist in behavioral modification and an authority on weigh-loss programs, he is author of Eating Is OK and co-author of The Doctor’s Calories-Plus Diet.

For twenty years, Dr. Jordan was Executive Director of the Claneil Foundation, Inc., which awards grants to non-profit organizations throughout the Delaware Valley. He served as Chairman of the Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and was the founding chairman of the Chester County Community Foundation. Dr. Jordan also serves on a number of other boards.

Dr. Jordan joined the Board of PENN Medicine in 2002, leading the Board’s Development Committee. In 2006, he was named Chair of the Campaign for PENN Medicine. Previously, his service to his medical alma mater included a term as President of the Medical Alumni Society (1999-2001). As chairman of the School of Medicine’s Annual Giving Campaign, he led his Class of 1962 to the distinctions of largest total gift, highest gift average, and highest percentage of participation. Dr. Jordan and his wife have hosted numerous alumni events at their home, including a reunion picnic and party for his class every five years.

In addition, he and Barbara have been major contributors to PENN Medicine. Their philanthropy includes establishing the Jordan Family Scholarship, honoring Dr. Jordan’s parents, Drs. Claus and Charlotte Jordan, both members of the School of Medicine’s Class of 1929. Dr. Jordan and his wife also established the Jordan Center for Gynecologic Cancer at the Abramson Cancer Center, to be housed in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, and made a significant commitment to PENN Medicine creating a challenge for medical school scholarships, and to support research in psychiatry.

He is a past recipient of the Alumni Award of Merit from the University’s General Alumni Society and the School of Medicine’s Alumni Service Award.

Robert M. Levy, WG’74

Mr. Levy is Partner, Chairman, and Chief Investment Officer of Harris Associates, LP, an investment management firm founded in 1976. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has been with Harris Associates since 1985. Prior to this, he was a portfolio manager and director of Gofen and Glossberg, Inc. Mr. Levy also is President of the Robert M. Levy and Diane v.S. Levy Family Foundation, as well as a Director of the Bill Nygren Foundation. Mr. Levy received his BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

At Penn, Mr. Levy is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School and the Midwest Regional Advisory Board. He serves on the Penn Alumni Council and Penn Alumni Board of Directors and its Nominations Committee. He was formerly a member of the Wharton Graduate Executive Board. Mr. Levy has supported the Wharton School for many years, including major contributions for the Levy Lobby in Jon M. Huntsman Hall and for the Diane v.S. and Robert M. Levy Endowed Fellowship, designated for Wharton graduate students with less than three years of work experience, women, or underrepresented minorities.