Watchdogs Assail Biden’s Ambassador to Germany Pick | RealClearPolitics
President Biden s choice of University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to be U.S. ambassador to Germany is spurring new controversy and not just over quid pro quo concerns about her decision to pay Biden $911,000 in salary for an ambiguous professorial role at the prestigious college.
Gutmann is the second-highest-paid Ivy League president, receiving roughly $3.9 million in total compensation in 2020, according to the university s latest publicly available 990 tax forms. Only Columbia University s Lee Bollinger makes more reportedly $4.6 million in 2018 while all other Ivy League presidents earn less than $2 million annually, according to the latest figures available.
But on the up side, it shows how the leaders of our most dazzlingly prestigious universities can now take part in the big leagues of our pay-to-play form of government.