Robert A. Brown, Tenth President
from 2005–2023
Robert A. Brown, a distinguished chemical engineer and former provost at MIT, became president of Boston University in September 2005. During his tenure, Brown has strengthened the core missions of undergraduate, graduate, and professional education, interdisciplinary work, and research and scholarship across all 17 schools and colleges. He oversaw the implementation of the University’s strategic plan and first major fundraising campaign. Under Brown’s leadership, the University was invited in 2012 to join the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading research universities in the United States and Canada. His 18-year legacy includes dramatic growth in sponsored research, a more diverse student body and faculty, a robust endowment, an exciting new building for data science, and a clear path for the future.
