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Harvard Names Klara Jelinkova as Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Klara Jelinkova ’97 has been named the new vice president and chief information officer (CIO) by Harvard University. “Jelinkova comes to Harvard from Rice University, where she has served as vice president for international operations and IT for more than six years. Prior to that, she was CIO and senior associate vice president at the University of Chicago, and she has held senior positions in IT at Duke University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.”

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