Katherine Elizabeth Fleming is President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization in the Department of History at New York University (NYU) as well as Provost Emerita of the university. She was Provost of NYU from 2016 to 2022. In April 2022, she was named President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and assumed the position on August 1, 2022. Career Fleming holds a certificate in Theology from King's College London (1985). She earned a BA in religion from Barnard College (1988), an MA in religion from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago (1989), and a PhD in history (1995) from the University of California, Berkeley She specializes in the modern history of Greece and the broader Mediterranean, with a particular focus on religious minorities. Fleming was the second director (after Tony R. Judt) of the Remarque Institute. Fleming was associate director of the institute from 2002 until Judt's death in 2010. Fleming is also a permanent associate member of the faculty of the department of history of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she ran a longstanding workshop on the history of the Mediterranean with the French historian of Italy, Gilles Pécout. Fleming was in residence at the École Normale from 2007 to 2011, although she retained her positions at NYU. Fleming is the co-founder and co-director (with Sofia Papaioannou) of "Istorima," a large-scale oral history/public humanities project funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Fleming has sat on the boards of numerous journals, among them the American Historical Review. Fleming was President of the board of the University of Piraeus in Piraeus, Greece from 2012 to 2016. She is an appointee to the Administrative Board of the Chancellerie des Universites de Paris, and sits on the Executive Board of the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation in Greece and on the Board of Directors of Time Partners, an independent private markets advisory firm based in London. Honors In 2016, the government of Greece recognized her contributions to Greek culture by granting her honorary Greek citizenship. In 2017, the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki) awarded her an honorary doctorate in recognition of outstanding scholarship and contributions to the study of Greek history. In 2018, Ionian University (Corfu) awarded her an honorary doctorate in recognition of outstanding contributions to Greece and the study of Greece.