President
Richard C. Levin '74 Ph.D.
Richard C. Levin, Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, has been Yale's President since 1993. He received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1968 and studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University, where he earned a B.Litt. degree. In 1974 he received his Ph.D. from Yale and joined the Yale faculty. Before becoming president, he chaired the economics department and served as dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. As president, he has invested in the physical renovation of the campus on an unprecedented scale, worked to improve relations with the City of New Haven, and launched a billion-dollar expansion in the sciences and medicine. Mr. Levin is a director of the Hewlett Foundation, Lucent Technologies, and Satmetrix, and he is a member of the national bipartisan commission investigating improvements to the country's intelligence operations. He also chairs the board of AllLearn, a joint venture of Yale, Oxford, and Stanford universities.
