Reginald DesRoches

Reginald DesRoches is Rice University’s eighth president. He also serves as a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and professor of mechanical engineering. As president, DesRoches is the chief executive officer of the university and its 8,800 plus students, eight schools and more than 900 faculty. He previously served as Rice's Howard Hughes Provost and William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering. Before his appointment at Rice, DesRoches served as chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. DesRoches’ top priorities are to position Rice as the world’s premier university for both teaching and research and to enable the university to reach a new level of distinction nationally and internationally for world-class teaching, impactful research, award-winning scholarship and insightful creative work.