President's Advisory Council
ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ System President's Advisory Council consists of a distinguished group of educators, leaders, innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs. With shared commitments toward progress, prosperity, social equity, and justice, the council will provide a fresh and energetic approach to envisioning the post-COVID era in higher education. Utilizing our strategic framework, the council advises, assists, supports, and advocates for the U of I System on matters that drive next-generation research and innovation to solve the world's greatest challenges and create jobs and businesses.
Members
- Chair
David H. Koch Institute Professor, MIT
- Executive Secretary
Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation, U of I System
Emeritus W.K. Kellogg Professor of Information and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
K. Harrison Brown Family Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology
Partner, Chico & Nunes, P.C.
Director and Senior Counsel, Discover Financial Services; Former Advisor to President Obama in the White House
President and Vice Chancellor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
President and CEO, Metropolitan Family Services
Chief Growth Officer, Clayco
Founding Chief Executive Officer, P33
Founding Principal, Jahn Research Group; Professor of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Interagency Personnel Agreement, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Chief Innovation Officer, Schmidt Futures
Chief Executive Officer, Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Former Executive Publisher, Science
Presidential Advisor and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Brookings Metro
Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Cora Marrett
Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chief Scientist, Novim Group
Chairman, Singapore Food Agency
Senior Design Strategy Consultant and Advisor
President, Observer Research Foundation
Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig
Immediate Past President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
President, Strada Impact
Albert van Jaarsveld
Former Director General, International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis
Andrea L. Zopp
Managing Partner, Cleveland Avenue
The inaugural meeting was held virtually on November 9, 2020.
