Following the high profile resignation of serial plagiarist Claudine Gay, Harvard has announced that Alan Garber, the school’s longtime provost, will step in as interim president.

So who is Alan Garber?

A college classmate and longtime admirer of Bill Gates, Dr Garber has made a killing through his appointments on the boards of pharmaceutical companies. During the Covid era, he was best known for his fear mongering proclamations, and his successful lobbying for government spending to the tune of trillions of dollars to “combat the virus.”

The Boston Globe describes the academic physician as a man who “helped guide the school through the COVID-19 pandemic,” but that “guidance” doesn’t seem so independent, to put it mildly.

Using the CMS Open Payments database, The Dossier has discovered that Garber has received a stunning $6.7 million from pharmaceutical companies from 2016-2022.

[I don’t know what anyone was expecting for a fellow they just plugged a sudden hole with. What they do searching for the permanent position replacement will be awfully fun to watch. ~ Beege]