Richard Levin
Chair of the Board of Directors
Richard Levin, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics Emeritus, served as 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, co-founded Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and launched scores of new international programs.
From 2014 to 2017, he served as CEO of Coursera, a pioneering educational platform that offers 4,000 courses from top universities and companies to over 100 million registered learners, and thousands of enterprises and campuses worldwide. Levin is currently a Senior Adviser to Coursera, GSV Ventures, and the TPG Rise Fund, and a director of C3.ai, Analysis Group, Yale-NUS College, and the Yidan Prize Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds honorary doctorates from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, Peking, Tokyo, and Waseda Universities, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University, a BLitt from Merton College, Oxford, and a PhD in Economics from Yale University.