Neri Oxman, Bill Ackman's Wife, Faces Plagiarism Claims in Doctoral Thesis

Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, has been accused of plagiarizing parts of her 2010 doctoral dissertation at MIT, as reported by Business Insider. This comes after Ackman campaigned against Harvard President Claudine Gay over similar allegations. Oxman has acknowledged and apologized for the oversight in citation, while Ackman has suggested the accusations against his wife are a response to his recent activism. Oxman, a former MIT professor and a pioneer in "material ecology," left MIT in 2020 to start her own design company.