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The Brown University Board of Trustees, which includes a major bank CEO, billionaires, hedge fund and banking executives, authors, professors, actresses and scientists, remained silent after the campus murders that took place earlier this month.
Although the board of trustees’ primary function is to uphold the fiduciary duty of the Ivy League university and not oversee day-to-day operations, the group is the school’s highest governing body, is responsible for the appointment and evaluation of the college’s president, and approves the top college’s long-term strategic strategy and planning.
The board conducts regular reviews of the university president and has authority over the president’s employment.
Despite its role as the highest governing authority at Brown University with direct authority over presidential oversight and long-term strategy, the Board of Trustees declined to comment in the wake of the killings that exposed serious deficiencies in campus security. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Directors include prominent Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, who serves as chancellor of the board, Goldman Sachs asset management division chairman Rich Friedman, author and Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson, global head of Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing Joe Dowling, actress Margaret Munzer, former U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, Ami Kuan Danoff of the Boston Legacy Football Club, and other banking executives and billionaires.
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Fox News Digital reached out to all board directors but received no response.
President of Brown University Christina Paxson faced heavy criticism of how the university equipped the school with security resources to prevent the shooting and the failure of campus police to apprehend the killer following the killings.
Earlier this month, a lone gunman, whom police identified as a Portuguese national Claudio Neves-Valente, interviewed campus before killing two Brown University students on December 13. Investigators attribute to a homeless man who lived on campus and was the primary source for identifying and ultimately locating the suspected shooter.
Images of Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente displayed on a projector screen during a press conference in Providence, Rhode Island. The 48-year-old former student and Portuguese national was identified as the perpetrator of a mass shooting that killed two students and injured nine. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)
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The homeless man, known as John, lived in the basement of Brown’s Barus and Holley engineering building. Police were unable to identify him on their own and asked social media for help in finding someone close to the real person of interest.
Questions remain about why a homeless person was allowed to take shelter in the basement of the Ivy League school.
Surveillance was limited in the building where the mass shooting took place, and if the killer had been apprehended, it could have saved a person’s life. MIT professor who authorities say was murdered home by Neves-Valente a few days later.
Brown University victims Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Uurzokov, alongside professor no lourereo, who were killed. (Instagram/elinacoutlakis/GoFundMe/Jake Belcher for MIT)
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A university guard told Boston Globe he saw the suspected shooter nearly a dozen times before the attack, hiding in bathrooms to avoid being seen and even reporting the unusual activity to a campus security officer in November.
Authorities found Neves-Valente dead by suicide in a storage shed in Salem, New Hampshire, Thursday evening.
In his statement following the discovery, Paxson condemned “targeted” gun violence.harmful doxxing activity” and noted “no indication of concerns regarding public safety conduct or interactions” on Neves-Valente’s part while he was a student at Brown for a short time, more than 20 years ago.
Interior view of Barus & Holley Room 166 on the Brown University campus in Providence, RI On Saturday, December 13, around 4 p.m., a masked man armed with a gun entered a review session in Barus & Holley Room 166 for ECON 0110: “Principles of Economics,” shouted something indiscernible, and opened fire. (Kenna Lee/The Brown Daily Herald)
“Following the shooting, we have witnessed harmful doxxing activity directed at several students, faculty and staff, and several offices have pledged their support,” Paxson said.
“We have also worked aggressively to combat misinformation in online media and activities that have gone so far as to threaten individuals in our community,” the university president added.
When asked if the lack of cameras on campus was a barrier to capturing mass shooter“I don’t think the lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened there,” she said.
Paxson, whose annual salary topped $3 million in 2023, and the university were heavily criticized for their negligence in protecting the campus and in the search for Neves-Valente, who later took another position. life in Massachusetts after the killing of two Ivy League students, authorities said.
Brown University President Christina H. Paxson speaks during a press conference after a mass shooting prompted a campus lockdown on December 13, 2025. (Getty)
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Sources told Fox News that the university was preparing to face legal action over the shooting and confirmed Monday morning that they had retained former U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha to represent the Ivy League school.
Fox News Digital reached out to Brown University to see if the board planned to issue a statement regarding the shooting, security measures or any plans for Brown’s future, but did not receive a response.
Preston Mizell is a writer for Fox News. Story tips can be sent to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and on X @MizellPreston
