John L. Anderson
President, Illinois Institute of Technology
John L. Anderson is the eighth president of Illinois Institute of Technology. He assumed the office on August 1, 2007.
A Wilmington, Del., native, Anderson served as provost of Case Western Reserve University from 2004 until joining IIT. Prior to Case, he served for 28 years at Carnegie Mellon University, including eight years as dean of the College of Engineering. He was a member of the Cornell University faculty before joining Carnegie Mellon.
Anderson received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Anderson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Melbourne (Australia), and Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (The Netherlands).
He has presented guest lectureships at universities throughout the United States, and is the author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters.
Anderson and his wife, Pat, have two children and five grandchildren.
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