Professor Phillip A. Griffiths, a renowned mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry, is presently professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he served as Director from 1991 to 2003.

Prior to joining the Institute, he was Provost and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University for eight years. From 1972 to 1983 he was a Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He has also taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Member of the Institute's School of Mathematics from 1968-1970. He is the Chairman of the Science Initiative Group and the Secretary of the International Mathematical Union in the United States.

Professor Griffiths is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Foreign Associate of the Third World Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the National Science Board from 1991 to 1996 in the USA.