Amy Gutmann (born 1949) is the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania.
In November 2016, the school announced that her contract had been extended to 2022 which will make her the longest-serving president in the history of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2018, Fortune magazine named Gutmann one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders".
(She fell off the list in 2019.) Her professional biography includes more than two decades at Princeton including as that university's provost and Laurance S.
Rockefeller University Professor of Politics.
While there, she founded Princeton's ethics center, the University Center for Human Values.
Her published works span the fields of politics, ethics, education, and philosophy.