Katherine N. Lapp serves as Executive Vice President for Administration at Harvard University. Previously, Ms. Lapp served as an Executive Vice President of Business Operations at University of California from May 2007 to September 2009. Ms. Lapp served as the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from 2002 to 2006. Ms. Lapp oversaw administrative operations for the university system, managing real estate, human resources, information technology and procurement. A lawyer, Ms. Lapp worked on criminal justice issues in New York in the administrations of Mayor David N. Dinkins, a Democrat, from 1990 to 1993; Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, from 1994 to 1997; and Gov. George E. Pataki, a Republican, from 1997 to 2001. Before moving to the MTA in 2002, she served in a variety of positions in the criminal justice system of the State and City of New York, culminating in her role as the state’s director of criminal justice and commissioner of the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) from 1997 to 2001. Ms. Lapp received a B.A. in 1978 from Fairfield University and her J.D. in 1981 from Hofstra University.