Barbara R. Snyder is president of the Association of American Universities. Prior to that, she served as president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where she encouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration, and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising.
AAU’s 13-member Board of Directors consists of member presidents and chancellors and includes: a Chair, Vice Chair, Past Chair, nine additional Directors, and the AAU President (ex-officio). Directors are elected by the member presidents and chancellors.
AAU’s Board of Directors is the governing body of the association and among other responsibilities, it proposes policy positions for consideration by the membership, adopts policy positions on behalf of the membership as warranted, approves the association’s annual budget, determines AAU membership, and works with the AAU President and staff to carry out the association’s agenda.
| Douglas Girod Chancellor, University of Kansas AAU Chair | Ronald Daniels President, Johns Hopkins University AAU Vice Chair | Christopher Eisgruber President, Princeton University AAU Past Chair |
| Ángel Cabrera President, Georgia Institute of Technology | Sally Kornbluth President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Michael Crow President, Arizona State University |
| Joan T. A. Gabel Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh | Farnam Jahanian President, Carnegie Mellon University | Cynthia Larive Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Gary May Chancellor, University of California, Davis | Maurie McInnis President, Yale University | Paul Alivisatos President, The University of Chicago |
