India, May 24 -- Alan Garber, current president of Harvard, has been making headlines recently due to his stance against the Trump administration's efforts tp revoke the college's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) and deny it up to $2.3 million in federal grants.

Born in 1955 in Rock Island, Illinois, to a Jewish family, Garber's association with Harvard has spanned well over five decades. After passing out from Rock Island High School in 1973, he then went on to graduate summa cum laude from Harvard with an AB in Economics in 1976 and an AM in Economics in 1977. In 1982, he further earned a PhD in Economics from the same university, along with receiving an MD with research honors from Stanford University School of Medicine in ...