Scott McVay was Chautauqua Institution's 16th president (2001-2003). He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University with a degree in English Literature. He worked for 11 years at Princeton University as Recording Secretary, and then Assistant to the President, Robert F. Goheen. He is Founding Executive Director of both the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, where he led efforts in strategic grant-making in education (K-12), the arts, the welfare of animals, and critical issues. The title of his lecture is "Our Intimate Affliation with the Natural World."