Lou Anna Simon

Lou Anna Kimsey Simon is the 20th and current president of Michigan State University. She also presently serves as the Chairwoman of the executive committee of National Collegiate Athletic Association. Additionally, she is the chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch.

Simon received her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Indiana State University in Terre Haute in 1969. She earned a Master of Science in student personnel and counseling from Indiana State University in 1970. In 1974 President Simon earned a Ph.D. in administration and higher education from MSU. She is married and lives in East Lansing.

Simon served as Michigan State University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1993-2004. She has also served as Associate Provost, Assistant Provost for General Academic Administration, Assistant Director of the Office of Institutional Research, as well as an MSU faculty member.

She served as Michigan State's interim president during the period from May 2003 to May 2004 that then-President M. Peter McPherson served as a representative of President George W. Bush in the reconstruction of Iraq following the toppling of Saddam Hussein's government.

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