David Van Zandt

David is the group-wide Global General Counsel based in the New York office. He joined Invus in 2020 after serving as a consultant to Invus and Artal since 1985. Prior to joining Invus full-time, David was the President for 10 years of The New School University in New York, the home of Parsons School of Design, where he moved the university toward a central focus on design, broadly conceived, and social science. Prior to that, David served for 15 years as dean and 10 years as a faculty member for the Northwestern University School of Law, an associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell, and as a law clerk to Southern District of New York Judge Pierre N. Leval (now on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals) and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. David holds an AB from Princeton University, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics.