Christopher L. Eisgruber

Position
President of the University; Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values
Office
1 Nassau Hall
Bio/Description

Christopher L. Eisgruber has served as Princeton University’s 20th president since July 2013. He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. Before becoming president, he served as Princeton’s provost from 2004-2013 and as director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs from 2001-2004. He is the author of "The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process" (Princeton 2007), "Religious Freedom and the Constitution" (co-authored with Lawrence G. Sager, Harvard 2007), and "Constitutional Self-Government" (Harvard 2001), as well as numerous articles in books and academic journals. Eisgruber received an A.B. magna cum laude in Physics from Princeton, an M.Litt. in Politics from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.