Dr. Mariko Silver is the President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Appointed in 2024, Silver is building upon a number of bold initiatives that invest in the vibrancy and wellbeing of New York City, foster artistic collaboration, and spark innovation for audiences and artists alike—from reimagining the west side of Lincoln Center’s iconic campus to welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world to free and Choose-What-You-Pay programming.

Prior to her role at Lincoln Center, Silver was the President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, where she oversaw the creation of new initiatives supporting Democracy, Ethics, and Public Trust and Asian American Voices, prioritized funding exhibitions of and by American artists of color, and more than doubled the foundation’s funding commitment to Indigenous communities.

Silver also serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and is a member of the advisory council for The Asian American Foundation. She served as President of Bennington College (2013-2019) and in the Obama Administration (2009-2011) and holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from UCLA. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.