Amy Gutmann Receives Yale Legend in Leadership Award
Penn President Emerita and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann was awarded the Yale Legend in Leadership Award in 2025.
The Yale Legend in Leadership Award was created in 2000 to honor current and former CEOs and university presidents who serve as living legends to inspire leaders across industries, sectors and nations.
Gutmann, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication, was Penn’s longest-serving leader, from 2004 to 2022. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” in 2018, Gutmann has a long history of championing global engagement, access to education and health care, public-private partnerships and innovative discoveries that save lives and propel economies forward.
She is a prize-winning scholar whose work spans a broad range of pressing public issues. Her publications and lectures explore themes such as democracy and education; the challenges of deliberation, compromise and diplomacy; bioethics and equitable access to healthcare; human rights and identity politics; and ethics within public affairs.
