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About
Persis S. Drell has been the Provost of Stanford University since 2017. A Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Physics, Dr. Drell has been on the faculty at Stanford since 2002 and was the Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering from 2014 to 2017. She also served as the Director of SLAC from 2007 to 2012. Dr. Drell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr. Drell holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and an AB degree in Mathematics and Physics from Wellesley College. She joined the NVIDIA board in 2015.
Personal Details
Title: Dr
Surname: Drell
M/F: Female
Nationality: American
Country of Birth: American
Language: English
Qualification: PhD, AB Mathematics and Physics
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Working history
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| Company | Committee | Role | Appointment Date | Resignation Date |
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| NVIDIA | Board | Member | 01/01/2015 | |
| NVIDIA | Remuneration | Member | 01/01/2015 |
Independence Questions
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Is your Director annual fee more than 5% of your total income from all sources?:
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InsidEntity has assumed that responses to the Independent Questions are NO as the company has not populated the information. The result will present the Director as Independent.



