Richard Levin

Richard Levin served as the President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013, during which time he rebuilt the campus, redeveloped downtown New Haven, purchased and developed a new West Campus, and launched scores of new international programs. He is the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics Emeritus.

From 2014 to 2017, Levin served as CEO of Coursera, a pioneering educational platform that offers courses from top universities and companies to millions of individual learners and thousands of enterprises and campuses worldwide.

Levin is currently a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Jackson School for Global Affairs, and a Senior Adviser to Coursera, GSV Ventures, and the TPG Rise Fund.  He is a director of C3.ai, Analysis Group, Yale-NUS College, and the Yidan Prize Foundation, and he serves on the Advisory Boards of Temasek, Global Logistics Properties, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, Westlake University, and the Jio Institute.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations.