Richard Charles Levin was born on April 7,1947 and is an American economist and academic administrator.
19 Facts About Rick Levin
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Rick Levin received a Bachelor of Letters in politics and philosophy from Merton College, Oxford.
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Rick Levin became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale in 1974 and was elevated to Associate Professor in 1979.
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On February 6,2004, Rick Levin was appointed to the Iraq Intelligence Commission, an independent panel convened to investigate US intelligence surrounding the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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Rick Levin had previously served on a government panel reviewing the US Postal Service and an independent panel appointed by Major League Baseball to examine the sport's economics.
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Rick Levin is a director of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, American Express, and Satmetrix.
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Rick Levin had been rumored as a possible replacement for Larry Summers as Director of the White House National Economic Council until Gene Sperling was selected instead.
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Rick Levin stepped down as president of Yale on June 30,2013.
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In 2013, Rick Levin agreed to serve on the Advisory Board for the newly created Schwarzman Scholars - fellowships that will take students from many countries for post-graduate study together at Tsinghua University in Beijing, with the aim of promoting international understanding.
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In March 2014, Rick Levin became chief executive officer of Coursera.
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In June 2017, Coursera announced that Rick Levin was being replaced by Jeff Maggioncalda.
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Rick Levin has made a special effort to expand Yale's engagement with China and was elected to the board of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
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Rick Levin was president during the largest building and renovation program since the 1930s, including all of the university's residential colleges.
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Rick Levin approved the creation of Yale's first two new residential colleges since the 1960s with the purpose of increasing the undergraduate population from around 5,400 to over 6,000.
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Rick Levin vastly expanded the Yale campus with the creation of Yale's West Campus.
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Rick Levin's administration worked to improve Yale University's relationship with its local workers.
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Rick Levin spearheaded the creation of the first liberal arts college in Asia, Yale-NUS College, a joint venture between Yale University and the National University of Singapore.
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In 1998, as President of Yale, Rick Levin was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford in a ceremony in which the President of Harvard University, Neil Rudenstine, was honored.
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Rick Levin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2013.