John J. DeGioia
President, Georgetown University
President of Georgetown for the past five years, Jack DeGioia has been an administrator and professor at the Washington, D.C., institution since his graduation in 1979.
DeGioia holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown. He has helped to recruit intellectual leaders to the faculty and secured substantial funding for scholarly research and academic programs. In 2001, he became the first layman to be named president of the Jesuit institution.
Under DeGioia’s leadership, Georgetown completed in 2003 the largest fund-raising effort in its history. The $1-billion capital campaign benefited Georgetown’s Main, Medical, and Law Center campuses to secure endowment funds for curriculum and faculty support, increase student financial aid, and build and renovate facilities.
DeGioia addresses broader issues in higher education as a board member of the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Campus Compact, and as an executive committee member of the Council on Competitiveness. He is chair of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and serves on the Business-Higher Education Forum.
