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Chancellor
A chancellor (USA) or vice-chancellor (Commonwealth) is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector.
In most Commonwealth (or former Commonwealth) nations, the term "chancellor" is usually used for a titular (figurehead) non-resident head, often...
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Larry N. Vanderhoef
Larry Neil Vanderhoef (born 20 March 1941) is an American biochemist, and academic. He was formerly the chancellor of University of California, Davis.
Vanderhoef was born in Perham, Minnesota to Wilmar James Vanderhoef and Ida Lucille Wothe. He...
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- 1994
Sandford Fleming
Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, known for proposing worldwide standard time zones, Canada's postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the...
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- 1915
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- 1880
Michael M. E. Johns
Dr. Johns was elected to the Board of Directors in 2005 and is a member of the Compensation & Benefits Committee and the Science & Technology Advisory Committee. He has served since October 2007 as Chancellor of Emory University. ...
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- 2007
John A White
John A. White has been Chancellor of the University of Arkansas since July 1997 and Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering of the University of Arkansas. His background includes extensive experience in academe, business, and...
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- 2008
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- 1997
Sir Robert B Horton
Sir Robert B. Horton is a former CEO of British Petroleum. He is a member of the Board of several companies including British Petroleum, Emerson Electric and Standard Oil of Ohio.
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- 1995
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- 1990
Lloyd V. Hackley
Lloyd V. “Vic” Hackley is an educational administrator in North Carolina who was named in July 2007 as the interim chancellor of Fayetteville State University. He was previously chancellor of FSU from 1988 to 1994.
Hackley, a retired U.S. Air Force...
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- Jul 23, 2007
George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell, Jr., (born August 20, 1933) is the American special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He was...
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Franklyn G. Jenifer
Dr. Jenifer is President Emeritus of the University of Texas at Dallas, a doctoral-level institution. He has been a Chevron director since 1993.
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- 1990
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- 1986
Erroll B. Davis Jr.
Erroll B. Davis Jr. is Chancellor, University System of Georgia since 2006. He has been a GM director since 2007.
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- 2006
Thomas J. Tisch
Thomas J. Tisch has served as the Managing Partner of Four Partners, a private investment firm, since 1992. He is the Chancellor of Brown University and also a trustee of the Manhattan Institute and New York University Medical Center.
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- 2007
Mike Lazaridis
Mihalis "Mike" Lazaridis, OC, O.Ont (born March 14, 1961) is the founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), which created and manufactures the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He is also a former chancellor of the University of Waterloo,...
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Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for over 40 years. He was the founding...
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Conor Cruise O'Brien (3 November 1917 – 18 December 2008) often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish politician, writer and academic. Although his opinion on the role of Britain in Northern Ireland changed over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, he...
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- 1965
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- 1962
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, KCVO, CBE (born 27 April 1944), is a British peer. He is the only surviving son of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, the former Deborah Mitford. He succeeded to the dukedom following...
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- 2008
Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, CB, OBE, TD, DL (born 22 December 1951 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland), is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and his wife Hon. Viola Maud...
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- 2005
Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti CBE (born 16 June 1969, London), has been the director of Liberty, a British pressure group, since September 2003. Chakrabarti is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.
After graduating from the London School of Economics...
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Fakhruddin T. Khorakiwala
Fakhruddin T. Khorakiwala has been the chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia since 2000. He is a well known Indian businessman, and owns Akabarallys group of departmental stores in Mumbai. He acquired Worli Chemical Works which later was incorporated as...
