Presidential Search

Drexel Trustee and LeBow College of Business alumnus J. Michael Lawrie, a globally recognized business and technology leader, and founder and CEO of The Lawrie Group, is chairing the presidential search committee, which will recruit Drexel’s 16th president in its 132-year history. Members of the committee include:

Domenic M. DiPiero III
Trustee

Nicholas DeBenedictis, ’68, ’69, HD ’87
Trustee

Angela Dowd-Burton, ’74, ’79
Trustee

Richard A. Greenawalt, ’66
Chair of the Board of Trustees

Bernard F. Greene, ’99, ’14,
Trustee, Chair of the Alumni Board of Governors

Dave Griffith
Trustee, Chair of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Nina Henderson
Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee

Joelyne Jacob
USGA Student Body President

Michele Kutzler, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology

J. Michael Lawrie, ’77
Trustee, Search Committee Chair

Vibhas Madan, Ph.D.
Dean of LeBow College of Business, R. John Chapel Jr. Dean’s Chair, Professor of Economics

Denis P. O’Brien, ’87
Drexel’s Interim President

Kevin Owens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chair of the Faculty Senate

Richelle Parham, ’91
Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Co-Chair of the Enrollment Management and Student Success Committee

Virginia S. Rose
Trustee

Subir Sahu, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President for Student Success

Stan Silverman, ’69, ’74
Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

The committee welcomes input from the Drexel community on the Presidential Search via a Qualtrics survey.

Nominations and expressions of interest can be submitted directly to Heidrick and Struggles by emailing drexelpresident@heidrick.com.

President Position Specification [PDF]

University Messages and Updates

Launching the search for Drexel’s Next President

July 31, 2024

The members of the Presidential Search Committee are announced, and a survey link is shared with members of the Drexel community to provide input.