Barbara M. Barrett Re-elected to Caltech Board of Trustees
April 23, 2021
During Ambassador Barbara Barrett's two-year hiatus from the Board of Trustees, she led the traditional Air Force and stood up the new Space Force. The Department of the Air Force organizes, trains, and equips 697,000 active duty Guard, Reserve, and civilian Airmen and Space Guardians, and executes a $205 billion budget.
Elsewhere in government, Barrett was ambassador to Finland, deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board. In business, she was an executive of two global Fortune 500 companies, global CEO of the American Management Association, and chairman of the board of the Aerospace Corporation. In academia, she taught leadership as a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School and served as interim president of Thunderbird School of Global Management.