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1Name:  Dr. Richard C. Levin
 Institution:  Yale University
 Year Elected:  2013
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1947
   
 
Richard C. Levin served as President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013. He is now President Emeritus and Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics. In from 2014-17 he was Chief Executive of Coursera, a provider of online academic courses. He is now Senior Advisor to the company, which enrolls seven million people in hundreds of free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from more than 100 partner universities in 19 countries. Mr. Levin had been experimenting with online education for years, beginning in 2000 in a partnership with Stanford and Oxford. In 2007, he started Open Yale Courses to make dozens of classes taught by Yale professors available without cost. He received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1968 and studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University, where he earned a B.Litt. Degree. In 1974 he received his Ph.D. from Yale and joined the Yale faculty. Before becoming president, he chaired the economics department and served as dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Levin served on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST). He is a trustee of the Hewlett Foundation and a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. He served on a bipartisan commission to recommend improvements in the nation’s intelligence capabilities and chaired a major review of the nation’s patent system for the National Academy of Sciences. President Levin holds honorary degrees from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Peking, Tokyo, and Waseda universities and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Richard C. Levin was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013.
 
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