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Marshall N. Carter

Marshall Carter was previously a lecturer in leadership and management at Sloan MIT and at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where from 2001 to 2005 he was a Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership and the Center for Business and Government.

From 1992-2001 Carter was chairman and CEO of the State Street Bank and Trust Co., and its holding company, State Street Corporation. Prior to joining State Street, Carter was with the Chase Manhattan Bank for 15 years, in positions related to finance, operations and global securities businesses.

A former Marine Corps officer who was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart during two years’ service as an infantry officer in Vietnam, Carter served from 1975-76 as a White House Fellow at the State Department and Agency for International Development.

Carter holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; an M.S. in operations research and systems analysis from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California; and an M.A. in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University.

Carter is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Medical Center. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Honeywell International from 1997-2005. Carter also chaired the Massachusetts Governor’s Special Advisory Task Force on Massport following the events of September 11, 2001. In 2006, Carter was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.