Dr claire gaudiani biography

Claire Gaudiani, Lauder Institute

Claire Gaudiani, a former director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, died on October 16 after a battle with leukemia. She was 79.

Born in 1944, Dr.

Gaudiani graduated from Connecticut College in 1966 with a bachelor’s degree in French literature. She then pursued her master’s and PhD in French literature from Indiana University, focusing on 17^th-century French literature and foreign language pedagogy.

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Gaudiani’s career at Penn began in 1981 as a senior fellow in the department of romance languages, where she directed the language and cultural perspectives program. Later, from 1984 to 1988, she led the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies.

During her tenure at the Lauder Institute, she played a pivotal role in preparing the next generation of global leaders and helped cement Penn’s reputation as a launching pad for academic presidents.

In 1988,