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Our Leadership - James Ramsey, PhD, Chairman
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James Ramsey, PhD, Chairman
Dr. James Ramsey is the President of the University of Louisville. Before assuming U of L’s top post, he served as senior policy advisor and state budget director for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and senior professor of economics and public policy at U of L. He also has held several other positions in state government, serving as interim commissioner of the Office of the New Economy and special advisor to the chairman of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.
On the academic side, he has served as vice chancellor for finance and administration at both University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Western Kentucky University. He has been associate dean, assistant dean and director of public administration in the College of Business Administration at Loyola University and a research associate for the University of Kentucky’s Center for Public Affairs. He has taught on the faculties of the UNC, WKU, UK, Loyola University and Middle Tennessee State University.
A frequent national speaker and writer on economic issues in the public sector, Ramsey received the National Governor’s Association’s Outstanding Public Service Award in 2001 and was named Kentucky’s Distinguished Economist of the Year in 1999.
A Kentucky native, he holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Western Kentucky University and master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from UK.
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