Meet the 2022–2023 Alumni Association Leadership: President, President-Select, and New Directors

The MIT Alumni Association’s Board of Directors develops strategies and sets policies in collaboration with the MIT Alumni Association CEO, staff, and thousands of volunteers, and represents the interests of the Institute’s community of nearly 145,000 living alumni.

On July 1, 2022, the Board officially welcomed Stephen D. Baker ’84, MArch ’88 as its 128th president. Baker’s long history with MIT began with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture. The longtime MIT volunteer is currently president and senior principal of BWA Architecture, a 27-person firm he cofounded in Boston in 1994 with Margaret (Garet) Wohl MArch ’86.

Baker is a 2017 recipient of the Bronze Beaver, the highest award bestowed by the MIT Alumni Association for service to the Institute and the Association. He also received a Lobdell Distinguished Service Award in 2013. He served on the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors from 2013 to 2017 and was later a member of the Association’s Corporation Nominating Committee. From 2009 to 2017, Baker served as a member of the MIT Corporation’s Visiting Committee for the Division of Student Life, which provided advice to the Institute’s senior leadership on matters including student counseling, extracurricular activities, residence life, and fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups.

“The people at MIT are really remarkable—the alumni, students, faculty, and staff,” Baker said in the July/August 2022 issue of Technology Review’s MIT News magazine. He added: “It’s incredibly valuable to work with people who are not exactly like you, but with whom you have shared values. Although we come from many diverse backgrounds and experiences, and have diverse views, as alumni we have this common thread of having been students at MIT. It’s rewarding to work with people who have that shared experience.”

Baker will be succeeded in his one-year term by newly appointed president-select R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95. Wickham earned a bachelor’s and master’s in AeroAstro from MIT and holds an MBA from the Harvard School of Business.

Read the full Q&A with Baker and learn below about the newly selected term members, who will serve multiyear terms; two at-large directors, who will serve one-year terms; and invited student guests. Visit the Volunteer section of the Alumni Association website to learn more about Association governance and other alumni volunteer opportunities.

See the full listing of the Board of Directors.