Michael M Crow, PhD

Prof Michael M Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. Since 2002, he has served as President of Arizona State University, where he is also ASU Foundation Leadership Chair and Professor of Science and Technology Policy. In his two decades of leadership, he has spearheaded the university’s rapid and groundbreaking evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model "New American University," ASU demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the United States, and consequential societal impact.

Lauded as the “#1 most innovative” school in the nation by US News & World Report for seven straight years, ASU is a student-centric, technology-enabled university focused on global challenges. Under Crow’s leadership, ASU has established 25 new transdisciplinary schools, including the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and has launched trailblazing multidisciplinary initiatives including the Biodesign Institute, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.

Dr Crow and Prof Barry Bozeman are coauthors of Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). Dr Crow and Dr William Dabars are coauthors of Designing the New American University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) and The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).