Henry Bienen has been a member of our Board since 2012 and serves on both the Audit Committee and the Compensation and Governance Committee. Dr. Bienen served as Northwestern University’s President from 1995 to 2009 and currently serves as the President Emeritus of Northwestern University.

Dr. Bienen was the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University prior to his appointment at Northwestern and is Emeritus Trustee of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Additionally, Dr. Bienen is on the boards of directors of Hedge Fund Guided Portfolio Solutions and Grosvenor Multi Strategy Funds, chairs the Advisory Committee of The Vistria Group’s Education Investments, is on the board of directors for Rasmussen University, for which he served in the past as chairman, and is a lifetime member of the board of MetroSquash, an urban squash and education program in Chicago. Dr. Bienen is a member of the board of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts, serves on the advisory board for the Qatar Foundation and was the chairman of the board of the Crown Center on Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Dr. Bienen is also a consultant for Academic Partnerships, an online project manager for regional public universities. Dr. Bienen served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2001 to 2011 and Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. from 2004 to 2008.

Mr. Bienen earned a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University with honors, as well as a Master of Political Science and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.