Anthony Marx

Anthony W. Marx has served since 2011 as the President of The New York Public Library, the United States’ largest library system and the world’s most used research library. Under his leadership, the Library has transformed into an essential provider of educational resources and opportunities for all: expanding early literacy and afterschool programs for children and teens and English language classes and citizenship support for immigrants, bridging the digital divide through technology classes and providing innovative home internet to low-income families, developing a permanent exhibit of the Library’s remarkable archival treasures, greatly expanding access to popular and scholarly digital collections, more than doubling the research collections available to scholars and students, and investing more than $1 billion to renovate libraries across the city, including the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in midtown Manhattan. From 2003 to 2011, Marx served as president of Amherst College, tripling enrollment for low-income students. Before Amherst, he was a political science professor, focusing on South African politics, and director of undergraduate studies at Columbia University.