The Miller Center of Public Affairs recently appointed an interim director, Eugene V. Fife, to lead while the search for a permanent director continues.
Fife currently serves on the Center's Governing Council and chairs the Center's Management Committee.
The director position opened up in February when the previous director, Philip Zelikow, was appointed Counselor of the U.S. Department of the State.
Miller Center spokesperson Margaret Edwards said University President John Casteen,
III has
appointed a search committee to fulfill the position permanently. The committee is chaired by Dan Friedman, current chairman of the Miller Center's Governing Council.
The committee will conduct a national search that is expected to take four to five months, said Wister Morris, executive director of the Miller Center Foundation. Edwards said in 1997, when Kenneth Thompson retired as director, the search process took seven to nine months before Zelikow was placed in the position. Edwards added that the Center is excited to have Fife as director in the interim search period.
"He is a first rate leader and manager," Edwards said. "We're pleased to have him serve at the Center."
As interim director, Fife will work in conjunction with the University Executive Vice-President's Office and the Miller Center. The director of the Miller Center oversees the overall management and direction for the Center's research, budget, fundraising and community outreach projects. The Center has about 40 employees under the director, many who are University faculty members, Morris said.
Morris said Fife is very qualified for the interim position.
"He is an outstanding leader with broad experience in both management and working on other non-profit boards," Morris said.
In previous years, Fife was a general partner in Goldman Sachs & Co., where he served as a member of its Management Committee and as chairman of Goldman Sachs International.
Fife also is the founding principal of Vawter Capitol LLC, a private equity investment firm in Charlottesville. He also has served on the Board of Visitors of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, and he serves on the University of Virginia Medical Center Board. He is an alumnus of Virginia Tech and the Graduate School of the University of Southern California.
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