Ann Ziff

Tamsen Ann Ziff is Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera. She is a vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is also vice chairman of the Artist Tribe Foundation. She currently serves on the boards of Fairchild Tropical Garden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Opera Company, New York Restoration Project, Sing for Hope, and World Science Festival. Ms. Ziff was co-founder and founding Chairman of Smile Train. She is the founder and producer of the Caribbean Community Theater in St. Croix. She has a Masters of Social Work from NYU and a Masters in Music Therapy from Temple University. Ms. Ziff is a Visiting Professor at Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple and has been a guest lecturer at Worcester College and the Said Business School at Oxford University. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the Juilliard School and an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Wittenberg University. Ms. Ziff designs and makes jewelry under the eponymous Tamsen Z.