Claudine Gay: Harvard University picks first black president- PublishedHarvard University has named the first black person to lead the Ivy League university.She will be the only black person to lead an Ivy League university in 2023 and the second black woman ever to head one of the colleges.Dr Gay has "brought to her roles a rare blend of incisiveness and inclusiveness, intellectual range and strategic savvy, institutional ambition and personal humility", said Penny Pritzker, a senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and the chair of Harvard's presidential search committee.Dr Gay received her doctorate degree in 1998 from Harvard, where she won the Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science, according to the university.Dr Gay's work has centred on race and politics in America, including how social and economic factors shape political views and voting behaviour."