Dr. Chris Howard

Dr. Chris Howard is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of ASU. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He also earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Howard’s military career included service as a helicopter pilot and an intelligence officer, and he was awarded a Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan.

Dr. Howard was previously president of Robert Morris University, president of Hampden-Sydney College, a vice president at the University of Oklahoma, and has also had a successful corporate career with GE and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

He is also a former member of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.

Dr. Howard is a trustee on the Harvard University Board of Overseers and also serves on the Board of Directors of AvalonBay Communities, a publicly traded real estate corporation. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Young Presidents’ Organization, the Aspen Strategy Group, the Trilateral Commission, and Sigma Pi Phi, the oldest African American fraternity in the United States.