Mary Ann rejoins the board after serving from 2011 to 2020. During that time, Mary Ann served in many capacities, including as Vice-chair of the Board, chair of the Committee on Trustees, member of the Search Committee for the Head of School, member of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, and member of the Development Committee. Mary Ann’s professional background is as a corporate finance and securities lawyer. She served as a Junior Partner at WilmerHale, as a corporate associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City, and as special US counsel at Ashurst, London.

Mary Ann is active in her community and volunteers in many capacities, including as co-Chair of the Board and Chair of Advancement for the Community Endowment of Lexington, a community-based grantmaking nonprofit foundation. She currently is taking courses at Harvard Extension School towards a certificate in nonprofit management. Mary Ann graduated from Brown University and from the University of Michigan Law School, and she is a member of the bar of the State of New York.

She and her husband Pierre, who grew up in Paris, have three children who have all attended ISB. Her oldest two children are ISB “lifers” who have attended since Maternelle; her older daughter is graduating with an IB diploma before heading to Emory University, and her son will finish the French baccalaureate next year. Their third child attended ISB from Maternelle through Grade 6. The family is bilingual and speaks English and French at home, and all are dual citizens.