Anke A. Ehrhardt
Anke A. Ehrhardt, vice chair for academic affairs and professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and director of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, serves on the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. She is chair of the board's Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Committee and is also a member of three other committees: Executive; Membership; and Management and Governance.
Before her association with the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, Dr. Ehrhardt co-directed the Program of Psychoendocrinology at the State University of New York at Buffalo Children's Hospital. Dr. Ehrhardt began her career in the United States as a postgraduate fellow of the Psychohormonal Research Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1981, she served as president of the International Academy of Sex Research.
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Dr. Ehrhardt attended the University of Munich and the University of Hamburg and received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Dusseldorf.