Derek Bok


Derek Curtis Bok is an American lawyer and educator and the former president of Harvard University. He is the son of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice Curtis Bok and Margaret Plummer Bok the grandson of Ladies Home Journal editor Edward W. Bok and Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist, founder of the Curtis Institute of Music the cousin of prominent Maine folklorist Gordon Bok and the greatgrandson of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, founder of the Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post.

Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents divorce, he, his mother, brother and sister moved to Miquon, Pennsylvania. He attended The Miquon School, a progressive school that his mother cofounded in 1932, and the UCLA Lab School. He graduated from Stanford University , Harvard Law School , attended IEP Paris, and George Washington University .

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