Ruth Simmons - Fiat Chrysler Non-Executive Director

Dr. Ruth J. Simmons serves as NonExecutive Director of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. since October 12, 2014. She was appointed to the board of directors of Chrysler Group LLC in June 2012. Simmons, President of Brown University from 2001 until June 30, 2012, remains with the university as president emerita. She continues in her appointment as professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Africana Studies. Prior to joining Brown University, she was president of Smith College, where she started the first engineering program at a U.S. womens college. She also was vice provost at Princeton University and provost at Spelman College and she held various positions of increasing responsibility until becoming associate dean of the faculty at Princeton University she previously was assistant dean and then associate dean at the University of Southern California, she held various positions including acting director of international programs at the California State University, she was assistant dean at the College of Liberal Arts, assistant professor of French at the University of New Orleans, admissions officer at the Radcliffe College, instructor in French at the George Washington University and interpreter Language Services Division at the U.S. Department of State. Simmons serves on several boards, including those of Princeton University and Texas Instruments. Simmons is a graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans, and received her Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University . Simmons is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. since 2014.