Kevin Guthrie

President, ITHAKA (JSTOR)

Kevin Guthrie is president of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit that provides three innovative services that benefit the academic community: JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R. He is an executive and entrepreneur with expertise in high technology and not-for-profit management. He was the founding president of JSTOR (1995) and Ithaka (2004) and oversaw their merger in 2010 to form ITHAKA. Previously, Guthrie started his own software development company that served the needs of college and professional football teams and later served as a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he authored The New York Historical Society: Lessons from One Nonprofit’s Long Struggle for Survival (Jossey Bass).

After the Pandemic: The Future of Higher Education in the Gulf

On August 20, AGSIW hosted a virtual panel discussion examining the role of higher education in the development of Gulf Arab states and how the coronavirus pandemic has affected these institutions.