Stacie Bloom
Board of Governors
President and Chief Executive Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Dr. Stacie Bloom is the eighth President and CEO of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, assuming the role in January 2026. A distinguished scientist and administrator, she transitioned to the Foundation following a transformative tenure at New York University (NYU), where she served as the Chief Research Officer, Vice Provost, and Vice Chancellor for Global Research and Innovation.
In this role at NYU, Dr. Bloom was a primary architect of the university’s rapid ascent as a global research powerhouse. She was instrumental in fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, expanding the university’s global research footprint, and spearheading major initiatives such as New York State’s Empire AI collaboration. Her faculty-centered approach focused on providing researchers with the infrastructure and resources necessary to turn innovative ideas into scientific breakthroughs.
Prior to her university-wide leadership roles, Dr. Bloom played a pivotal role at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, overseeing Policy and Administration. In this capacity, she aligned strategy and drove performance across basic science and clinical departments. Her tenure at the medical center began in 2011 when she was recruited as the inaugural Executive Director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute. She was a key leader in building the Institute from the ground up, managing planning, growth, operations, and the recruitment of top-tier faculty to successfully establish it as a premier center for brain research.
Before her leadership roles at NYU, Dr. Bloom built a versatile career at the intersection of scientific research, policy, and communications. She served as the Vice President and Scientific Director for The New York Academy of Sciences and held editorial positions at Nature Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Bloom’s academic foundation is rooted in neurobiology and cell biology. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Delaware and her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Georgetown University. She furthered her expertise as a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Dr. Paul Greengard, where her research focused on the neurobiological underpinnings of disease. Throughout her career, she has been a vocal advocate for mentorship and public engagement with science, earning recognition from the Society for Neuroscience for her dedication to training the next generation of researchers.
As President and CEO of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Dr. Bloom is tasked with stewarding the organization’s legacy of funding original research, sustaining the Foundation’s history of excellence, and ensuring that its grants continue to empower researchers to pursue creative and innovative scholarship, expand opportunity and access to scientific training and careers, leverage the use of new technologies to strengthen research, and deepen the public’s engagement with science and technology.