Professional Biography
Dr. Amy Gutmann most recently served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany (2022–2024), the first woman to hold that position. She is President Emerita of the University of Pennsylvania and its longest serving president (2004–2022). Gutmann is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication. She holds secondary faculty appointments at the Graduate School of Education and in philosophy. Gutmann has published and lectured widely on democracy and education; deliberation, compromise, diplomacy, and their critics; bioethics and access to health care; identity politics; and ethics in public affairs.
In addition to publishing over 100 articles, Dr. Gutmann is an award-winning author, co-author, and editor of 17 books, including Democratic Education, Democracy and Disagreement, The Spirit of Compromise, and Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America (with an afterword to the paperback edition on Pandemic Ethics).
