Education Executives

Education Executives consultants have conducted over 300 successful searches for senior academic leaders across the nation.

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Ilene Nagel has placed senior academic leaders at 3 of the top 5 ranked medical schools in the U.S. as well as at 2 of the nation's top ranked academic hospital systems.

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Education Executives consultants' searches have included AAU research university presidents, provosts, and deans of engineering, law, medicine, arts and sciences, business, etc.

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Education Executives consultants have recruited senior leaders for a broad range of scientific institutions.

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Recent Placements

Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University

Dr. Bellamkonda returns to Emory after serving as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University for five years.
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Dr. Laura Carlson
Provost, University of Delaware

Dr. Laura Carlson, a distinguished administrator, educator and researcher with more than 20 years of higher education experience at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the 12th provost at the University of Delaware
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Dr. Dexter Voisin
Dean, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Voisin joins CWRU from the University of Toronto where he served as the Dean of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
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Dr. Gareth James
Dean, Goizueta Business School at Emory University

Dr. James comes to Emory from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where he serves as deputy dean, E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration and professor of data sciences and operations.
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Dr. Karthik Kannan
Dean, University of Arizona Eller College of Management

Dr. Kannan joins Eller from Purdue University, where he is currently the associate dean for research and partnerships at the Krannert School of Management, director for Krenicki Center for Business Analytics & Machine Learning, as well as the Thomas Howatt Chair in Management and professor of management.
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Dr. Gregory Fenves
President, Emory University

Dr. Fenves joins Emory from the University of Texas at Austin where he served as the President.
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Dr. Nathan Urban
Provost & VPAA, Lehigh University

Dr. Urban joined Lehigh from the University of Pittsburgh, where he serves as vice provost for graduate studies and strategic initiatives.
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Dr. Thomas Wang
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Wang joined UTSW from Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he was the Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.
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Dr. M. Daniele Fallin
Dean, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

Dr. Fallin joins Emory University from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she serves as chair of the Department of Mental Health.
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Dr. Gregory D. Hess
President and CEO of IES Abroad

Dr. Hess joins IES from Wabash College where he served as the President.
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Dr. Kyongbum Lee
Dean, Tufts University School of Engineering

Dr. Kyongbum Lee, dean ad interim of the School of Engineering, has been chosen to become the school’s next dean following a national search to fill the position.
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Dr. Young-Jun Son
Head, School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University College of Engineering

Dr. Son joins Purdue from the University of Arizona where he served as the Head of the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering.
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Key Placements

Dr. Julio Frenk
President, University of Miami

Dr. Frenk was named President of the University of Miami in 2015. He was previously the Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Dr. Kelsey Martin
Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dr. Kelsey Martin, a neuroscientist and senior administrator, assumed the role of Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine in 2016.
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Ron Daniels
President, Johns Hopkins University

Ronald J. Daniels has served as the 14th president of Johns Hopkins University since 2009.
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Dr. Selwyn Vickers
Senior Vice President of Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham
Dean, UAB School of Medicine

Dr. Vickers came to UAB in 2013 from the University of Minnesota where he served as the Chair of the Department of Surgery.
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Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn
President Emerita, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist and pioneering molecular biologist, Blackburn was named Salk's president in November of 2015.
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Johnese Spisso
President, UCLA Health, CEO, UCLA Hospital System & Associate Vice Chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences

Johns Spisso came to UCLA from UW Medicine where she was chief health system officer and vice president of medical affairs for the University of Washington.
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Dr. W. P. Andrew Lee
EVP & Dean, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Lee, a world leader in hand transplantation, joined UTSW from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he served as the Director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
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Education Executives specializes in the identification, recruitment, and mentorship of senior leaders for comprehensive research universities, academic medical centers, and scientific entities.