Ursula M. Burns serves as Chair (since May 2010) and CEO (since July 2009) of Xerox. As such, she is the first Black woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company.
She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company, having succeeded Anne Mulcahy as CEO of Xerox.
In 2014, Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world.
Burns was raised by a single mother in the Baruch Houses, a New York city housing project. Both of her parents were Panamanian immigrants. She attended Cathedral High School, a
Catholic all-girls school on East 56th Street in New York.
She went on
to obtain a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University in 1980 and a master of science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University a year later.
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