Rick Levin
| Rick Levin | |
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Levin at the India Economic Summit 2008
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| 22nd President of Yale University | |
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In office 1993–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Howard R. Lamar |
| Succeeded by | Peter Salovey |
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| Born |
April 7, 1947 San Francisco, California |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Levin |
| Children | Jonathan, Daniel, Sarah, Rebecca |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Merton College, Oxford Yale University |
| Profession | Economist |
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| Website | yale.edu/opa/president |
Richard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. In March 2014, he became Chief Executive Officer of Coursera.
Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with a B.A. in history. He received a Bachelor of Letters in politics and philosophy from Merton College, Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1974. His academic specialties include industrial research and development, intellectual property, and productivity in manufacturing.
Levin became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale in 1974 and was elevated to Associate Professor in 1979. In 1982, he was promoted to Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. In 1992, he was appointed Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics. Before becoming president, he served as chairman of the Economics Department and dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
On February 6, 2004, Levin was appointed to the Iraq Intelligence Commission, an independent panel convened to investigate U.S. intelligence surrounding the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. He had previously served on a government panel reviewing the U.S. Postal Service and an independent panel appointed by Major League Baseball to examine the sport's economics. Levin is a director of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, American Express, and Satmetrix.
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