Michael A. McRobbie

Michael A. McRobbie is Indiana University President Emeritus, University Chancellor and University Professor. Prior to his current roles, Michael served as the 18th president of Indiana University (IU) from 2007-2021. During his 14-year tenure as president, he oversaw extensive change at IU including the largest academic restructuring in the university’s history including the establishment of 10 new schools and hundreds of new degrees and academic programs; major increases in financial aid, research funding and campus diversity; more than 200 major construction, renovation, or maintenance projects; and completion of the record $4 billion IU Bicentennial fundraising campaign. He reinvigorated IU’s global engagement founding the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies (2012), doubling study abroad numbers, expanding international partnerships, and establishing global gateway offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Mexico City and New Dehli. 

Michael has held faculty appointments in computer science, philosophy, cognitive science, informatics, and computer technology, and has been principal investigator on numerous large grants totaling more than $100 million. He has chaired the boards of the Association of American Universities, the Big Ten Athletics Conference, and Internet2, and served on the boards of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the IU Health hospital system.

Michael holds a B.A. with first class honors from the University of Queensland, a Ph.D. from the Australian National University and has been awarded eight honorary doctorates. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Australian Academy of Humanities, and is a member the Council on Foreign Relations.