And her experience working at FAS allows her to understand financial issues from the individual schools’ points of view as well as from the University’s standpoint, he said.
Although the University’s plans to move some facilities to Allston “loom large” on the horizon, Hyman said, budgeting for new developments there is not currently a top priority.
“She’ll have her work cut out for her, but right now this isn’t the biggest thing on her plate,” he said.
Berman has worked at Harvard since 1991, serving as FAS associate dean of finance from 1994 to 2000 and as senior advisor to the FAS dean from 2000 to 2002.
From 1991 to 1994, she was a financial planner and strategic consultant to the president of Radcliffe College.
Previously, Berman spent ten years as a public accountant at Price Waterhouse and Richard A. Eisner & Co.
She received her B.A. from Cornell University and completed graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Columbia University, and New York University.
—Staff writer Stephen M. Marks can be reached at marks@fas.harvard.edu.