Leadership

President Barbara R. Snyder

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.

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Our Board of Directors

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.

Christopher Eisgruber President, Princeton University AAU Chair	Douglas Girod Chancellor, University of Kansas AAU Vice Chair	Robert Jones Chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign AAU Past Chair
Ángel Cabrera President, Georgia Institute of Technology	Ronald Daniels President, Johns Hopkins University	Gregory Fenves President, Emory 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	Vincent Price President, Duke University

President Barbara R. Snyder

Our Board of Directors

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