About
Marilyn Simons is a billionaire philanthropist, co-founder of the Simons Foundation, and its founding president from 1994 to 2021. She now serves as chair of the Simons Foundation board and chairs the board of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, while holding additional trustee and advisory roles across science, education and community philanthropy. Forbes describes her wealth as stemming from the Simons family’s hedge-fund fortune tied to Renaissance Technologies.
Areas of interest
basic sciencemathematicslife sciencesneuroscienceaging brain researchautism researchSTEM educationscience outreachK-12 education for underserved communitiesmolecular biology and geneticscommunity philanthropywomen's leadership