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Andrew H. Tisch is Co-Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Loews Corporation. He holds a BS degree from Cornell University (1971) and an MBA from Harvard University (1977).
He also serves on the Boards of Directors of CNA Financial Corporation, Boardwalk Pipelines LLC, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. and K12, Inc.
In education, he is active at Harvard Business School (Dean’s Board of Advisors), Cornell University (Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees), NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Co-Chair,Dean’s Council), and the Young Women’s Leadership Foundation (Co-Founder).
He is active in Jewish communal affairs through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Trustee/Executive Committee), the Jewish Leadership Forum (Founding Chairman), and the Jewish Business Leadership Forum (Founder). He participates in many educational organizations including the Economic Club of New York (Immediate Past Chairman), The Brookings Institution (Trustee) and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the boards of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the NYC Police Foundation.
Mr. Tisch is former Vice-Chairman of the Board of Cornell University where he remains actively engaged as Chairman of the Dean’s Board of Advisors of the S.C. Johnson School of Business, a member of the Executive Committee of the Weill Cornell Medicine Board of Fellows and a member of the Cornell Tech Council. He has been a member of the Dean’s Board of Advisors of the Harvard Business School and is Co-Founder of the Student Leadership Network. Mr. Tisch is Chair of the Dean’s Council’s Board of Advisors at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
He is Chairman of the New York City Police Foundation and Chair of the Executive Committee of the New York Historical Society. Mr. Tisch is on the Boards of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation. He is a recent past Chair of the Economic Club of New York.
Mr. Tisch is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution and is Vice-Chairman of the United States Global Leadership Coalition. He is a Co-Founder of the No Labels Coalition and the Jewish Leadership Foundation. Mr. Tisch is a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
He is author of the book, Journeys: An American Story that focuses on immigration to America over the centuries.
Personal life
Andrew has been married twice:
Susan Hiat Tisch Allen who he has since divorced. They have a son, Alexander Hiat Tisch (born 1978) and a daughter Lacey Ann Tisch (born 1980). Both Lacey and Alexander were married by Susan Hiat's father, a rabbi, at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan. Susan's sister, Merryl Hiat, is married to Andrew's brother, James S. Tisch.
Ann Rubenstein Tisch, a former reporter for NBC who co-founded an all-girls public school in Harlem.
