ANNE C. PETERSEN

Dr. Anne C. Petersen is the senior vice president for programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. As a senior member of the executive staff since 1996, she provides leadership for all programming, including the development of effective programming strategies, teamwork, policies, philosophies, and organization-wide systems to accomplish the programmatic mission of the Foundation.

Previously, Dr. Petersen was deputy director and COO of the National Science Foundation (NSF), then a $3.6 billion federal research agency with 1,300 employees. Before joining NSF, Petersen served as vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota. She was professor of adolescent development and pediatrics. Previously she was the first dean of the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State University.

She has authored more than a dozen books and 200 articles on adolescent and gender issues, including evaluation, health, adolescent development, and higher education.

Her honors include election to the Institute of Medicine. She is a founding member of the Society for Research on Adolescence, was president and council member. She was president of Developmental Psychology in the American Psychological Association, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. She is president-elect of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development.

Petersen holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s degree in statistics, and a doctorate in measurement, evaluation, and statistical analysis from the University of Chicago.