NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE. Mariët Westermann joined NYU Abu Dhabi as Vice Chancellor in August and will oversee all academic, administrative, and operational affairs at the campus. Mariët is the former executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former provost of NYU Abu Dhabi, former director of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, and art historian. She had been with the Mellon Foundation since 2010, and was the executive vice president for programs and research since 2016. In that role, she launched initiatives that study and promote the value of the humanities and the liberal arts, strengthen community colleges, encourage graduate education reform, renew preservation of cultural heritage around the world, and support scholars and artists at risk. Prior to the Foundation she was on the faculty at NYU, first as director of the Institute of Fine Arts and then as the first provost of NYU Abu Dhabi. Before joining NYU in 2002, she was at the Clark Art Institute, and from 1995 to 2001 at Rutgers University.