Joseph William Polisi (born 1947) was the President of The Juilliard School from 1984 to May 2017, having assumed the position upon the death of his predecessor, Peter Mennin.

He oversaw the construction of Juilliard's first dormitory— the Meredith Willson Residence Hall,[3][4] and focused his tenure on "community building".

[citation needed] Polisi is the author of The Artist as Citizen, a book which implores the classical music world to reach out to society at large.

in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a D.M.A.

Polisi studied the bassoon with his late father, and performed through his undergraduate years.