Daniel Diermeier
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Daniel serves as the 13th Provost of the University of Chicago. He is the Emmett Dedmon Professor at the Harris School and the university. He is a member of the Board of the University of Chicago Medical Center, the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory and the Board of Trustees of NORC. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of CityBase, an urban technology company.
Previously, Daniel was Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago from 2014 to 2016.
Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Daniel was a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, most recently as IBM Professor of Regulation and Practice in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, and Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship. He also co-founded and was Academic Director of CEO Perspectives. This nationally recognized development program for C-suite business executives is a partnership among the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Corporate Leadership Center and the Chicago Booth School of Business.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Daniel has published two books, including
Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building your Company’s Most Valuable Asset (McGraw-Hill, 2011), and more than 100 research articles in academic journals, mostly in the fields of political science, economics and management but also in other areas ranging from linguistics, sociology and psychology to computer science and applied mathematics. Daniel is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research.
During his time at Northwestern, he won 13 teaching awards, including the 2001 Kellogg Lavengood Professor of the Year Award and the 2013 Kellogg Alumni Professor of the Year Award. He was named among the World’s 50 Best Business School Professors, was the 2007 recipient of the Faculty Pioneer Award from the Aspen Institute and was named the “Oscar of Business Schools” by the
Financial Times.
Daniel has been an advisor to leading companies, governments and non-profits, including Abbott, Accenture, Allianz, Baxter International, BP, the City of Chicago, Edelman, Exelon, EY, the FBI, General Mills, the Government of Canada, Greenpeace, Hyatt, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, McDonald’s, Medtronic, Metro Group, the Metropolitan Opera of New York, PwC, Shell, State Farm, UnitedHealth Group and the U.S. Olympic Committee, among others. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.
Additionally, he was Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship and in 2004, he was appointed to the Management Board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He also was a Senior Advisor to PwC and GroupOn and currently serves on the Advisory Board of Quantum Secure, a security management technology company.
EDUCATION
Daniel received his MA in political science from Munich University in 1986. In 1989, he received an MA in philosophy from the University of Southern California, and in 1994, he received a PhD in political science from the University of Rochester.
