Vice President and General Counsel

Mark DiVincenzo is vice president and general counsel at MIT. In addition to serving the Institute as its chief legal officer, he is a member of the president’s senior leadership team and senior advisor to the president. He is also primarily responsible for Institute policies and oversees the Institute risk management and compliance functions.  

DiVincenzo joined MIT in 2001 and served as deputy general counsel from 2007 to 2015. He graduated from Boston College with a BA in political science magna cum laude and the Cornell Law School with a JD.

DiVincenzo currently serves as a member of the Oversight Board of the Boston University/MIT Startup and Technology Law Clinics, the underwriting committee of the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions Inc., and the Association of American Universities’ General Counsel Steering Committee. He served on the board of directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys from 2019 to 2022 and as a co-chair of the College and University section of the Boston Bar Association from 2016 to 2018. He is also a board member of the Wily Network, a nonprofit organization supporting college students who are working toward their degrees without family support.