Miguel Angel Corzo
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Miguel Angel Corzo (born on March 2, 1942) is currently the President and CEO of The Colburn School in Los Angeles, California.
[edit] Early Life and Education
Miguel Angel Corzo Melgar was born and raised in Mexico City. He was named after his father, Miguel Angel Corzo Blanco, an attorney who in the forties and fifties helped develop the city of Cuernavaca. His mother, born Josefina Melgar Pacchiano, was herself born in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Corzo grew up in a traditional, albeit small, Mexican household, being the only child resulting from this union.
Miguel Angel Corzo as a child went to a small private French school owned by Madame Tron. As a teenager, he attended the Lycee Francais of Mexico City. He then completed an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1967. Mr. Corzo did his doctoral work at the Technische Universität in Munich, as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Lecce in Italy.
[edit] Professional Life
Dr. Corzo is currently President and CEO of The Colburn School in Los Angeles, CA, where he began his tenure in July 2007. Prior to that, between 2000 and June 2007, he was the President and CEO of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia since. During his time at the University of the Arts, the University grew in size and influence, earned wide recognition for inspiring and educating innovative artists and creative leaders, and created important initiatives such as the Center for the Creative Economy (CCE). During Dr. Corzo's tenure, enrollment increased significantly, the campus expanded, technology was enhanced and fundraising increased 375 percent.
As Dr. Corzo's tenure was ending at the University of the Arts, the University allocated a $5 million gift from Philadelphia-area philanthropist Dorrance Hamilton and renamed the CCE "The Miguel Angel Corzo Center for the Creative Ecomony". The mission of the Center is to seek to define, research and promote the creative process as a transformative force for society.
Dr. Corzo has been an international consultant in the arts, education, culture and sustainable development. He was the Director of the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles where he developed projects in over 40 countries, from 1990 to 1999. He previously served as President and CEO of the Friends of the Arts of Mexico Foundation where he participated in the organization of the successful exhibition: Mexico Splendors of Thirty Centuries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, traveling later to San Antonio and Los Angeles. A Mexican-born U.S. citizen, Dr. Corzo was the Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Tourism in Mexico, a technical advisor to the Minister of Human Settlements and Public Works as well as the founding Dean for Academic Affairs at the Metropolitan University.
Dr. Corzo is the recipient of UNESCO’s distinguished Medal of Patron of the Arts along with Vaclav Havel, Yehudi Menhuin and King Juan Carlos of Spain; he has also been awarded governmental honors and distinctions, the Gabarrón International Prize for Conservation.
Dr. Corzo is the author or editor of twenty books, the producer of fifteen television documentaries on the arts and culture and has organized fifteen museum exhibitions around the world.
He was twice appointed by President Clinton to serve on the President’s Advisory Committee on Cultural Property. He is a member of the Art Commission of Philadelphia and serves on the boards of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, the Cultural Fund, the Avenue of the Arts, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Preservation Alliance and the International Cultural Center in Guadalajara, Mexico.
[edit] Family life
Miguel Angel Corzo has been married to Liliane Maunier, with whom he had three children: Liliane Corzo, Vice-President and Associate Counsel, Capital Research Management Company; Alex Corzo, Senior Manager, Accenture LLP; Xavier Corzo, Sr. Research Analyst, Saybrook Capital LLC.
Dr. Corzo has four grandchildren: Nicolas Corzo (son of Liliane Corzo); Julia Corzo and Hannah Corzo (daughters of Alex and Fernanda Revuelta) and Emma Corzo (daughter of Xavier and Irina Rozentul).
Dr. Corzo maintains residences in both Los Angeles and Xcanchacan, in the Yucantan Peninsula, Mexico.
