Marcia Brown Mintz
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Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow
Research Interests
- Higher Education
About
Marcia Brown Mintz is a senior industry and innovation fellow with the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, a role she has held since 2018 after serving as the Center’s managing director from 2014 to 2018.
Brown Mintz has long held leadership roles working with and for the nation’s leading colleges and universities. Her experience spans multiple institutions and functional areas. She served for a decade as associate provost at Georgetown University with a broad portfolio distinguished by strategy and policy development. Subsequently, in various advisory roles, she contributed to interdisciplinary program development, curriculum design, and strategic collaboration across schools and programs working with faculty and university leadership. She continues at Georgetown as an adjunct faculty member in the Dikran Izmirlian Program in Business and Global Affairs Program.
Brown Mintz began her career in academic administration at Harvard University, serving there for ten years, first at the Fogg Art Museum, followed by appointments as assistant dean for faculty affairs and assistant dean for financial affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She spent ten years at Cambridge Associates LLC as a consultant and managing director. She worked with colleges, universities, museums, and other endowed institutions consulting, leading research, and authoring publications on topics such as financial aid, compensation, capital campaigns, and endowment strategy. She is the founder and principal of the Tournesol Group LLC, a boutique consulting firm, and a senior advisor at the management consulting firm CFAR.
Brown Mintz holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Science from The George Washington University. She is a co-founder and ex officio board member of the Georgetown Scholars Program, a nationally recognized initiative established in 2004 to provide programmatic support for first-generation and low-income students. She serves as a peer evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In 2025, Brown Mintz was appointed to the Montgomery College Board of Trustees by Governor Wes Moore.