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Ms. Anguiano is the current Vice Chair of the Board. </p> <p><a href="bios/elaine-batchlor.html"><strong>Elaine E. Batchlor</strong></a><br/>Appointed by Governor Newsom effective July 22, 2022 to a term expiring March 1, 2033; Chief Executive Officer, MLK Community Healthcare; Doctor of Medicine Degree, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Master of Public Health Degree, UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health. </p> <p><strong><a href="bios/josiah-beharry.html">Josiah Beharry</a><br/></strong>Student Regent, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025. UC Merced graduate student (Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities); B.A. (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies).</p> <p><strong><a href="bios/carmen-chu.html">Carmen Chu</a><br/></strong>Appointed by Governor Newsom effective July 22, 2022 to a term expiring March 1, 2030; City Administrator, City and County of San Francisco; Master of Public Policy Degree, University of California, Berkeley; Bachelors' Degree (Public Policy), Occidental College. </p> <p><strong><a href="bios/michael-cohen.html">Michael Cohen</a><br/> </strong>Appointed by Governor Brown effective August 6, 2018 to a term expiring March 1, 2030; Chief Financial Officer of CalPERS, the California Public Employees' Retirement System; B.S., Stanford University (Urban Studies); Master's Degree in Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School at the University of Texas.</p> <p><a href="bios/gareth-elliott.html"><strong>Gareth Elliott</strong></a><br/> Appointed by Governor Brown January 2, 2015 to term expiring March 1, 2025; Partner, Sacramento Advocates, Inc.; B.A. (Political Science), Humboldt State University. </p> <p><a href="bios/peter-guber.html"><strong>Howard "Peter" Guber</strong></a><br/> Appointed by Governor Brown effective June 6, 2017 to a term expiring March 1, 2029; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mandalay Entertainment Group; Master of Laws and J.D. degrees, New York University School of Law.</p> <p><a href="bios/jose-hernandez.html"><strong>Jose M. Hernandez</strong></a><br/> Appointed by Governor Newsom effective August 20, 2021 to a term expiring March 1, 2033; President and Chief Executive Officer, Tierra Luna Engineering LLC; Master of Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (Electronics Engineering, Signals and Systems); B.S. (Electrical Engineering), University of the Pacific.</p> <p><strong><a href="bios/nancy-lee.html">Nancy Lee</a><br/></strong>Appointed by Governor Newsom effective June 29, 2023 to a term expiring March 1, 2024; re-appointed in 2024 by Governor Newsom to a term expiring March 1, 2036; Executive Vice President of International Business Operations and Chief of Staff to Robert A. Iger, Walt Disney Company; M.B.A., MIT Sloan School of Management; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; B.A., University of Chicago. </p> <p><a href="bios/richard-leib.html"><strong>Richard Leib</strong></a><br/>Appointed by Governor Brown effective August 6, 2018 to a term expiring March 1, 2026; President and CEO, Dunleer Strategies; B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Claremont Graduate University; J.D., Loyola University School of Law. </p> <p><a href="bios/hadi-makarechian.html"><strong>Hadi Makarechian</strong></a><br/> Appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger effective October 24, 2008 to term expiring March 1, 2020; re-appointed in 2020 by Governor Newsom to a term expiring March 1, 2032; B.S. (Civil Engineering), B.A. (Economics), State University of New York; former Chairman of Makar Properties Board of Directors.</p> <p><strong><a href="bios/ana-matosantos.html">Ana Matosantos</a><br/></strong>Appointed by Governor Newsom effective July 22, 2022 to a term expiring March 1, 2034; Bachelor's Degree (Political Science), Stanford University. <a href="bios/eloy-ortizoakley.html"></a></p> <p><a href="bios/lark-park.html"><strong>Lark Park</strong></a><br/> Appointed by Governor Brown effective June 15, 2017 to a term expiring March 1, 2029; Director of the California Education Learning Lab in the Governor's Office of Planning and Research; B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Georgetown University.</p> <p><a href="bios/john-perez.html"><strong>John A. Pérez</strong><br/> </a> Appointed by Governor Brown effective November 17, 2014  to term expiring March 1, 2024; re-appointed in 2024 by Governor Newsom to a term expiring March 1, 2036; California State Assembly Speaker Emeritus and former Assemblymember. <span></span></p> <p><a href="bios/janet-reilly.html"><strong>Janet Reilly</strong></a><br/>Appointed by Governor Newsom effective August 9, 2019 to a term expiring March 1, 2028; Co-founder and President of the Board of Directors for Clinic by the Bay; B.A., UCLA; Master of Science (Journalism), Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Ms. Reilly is the current Chair of the Board<span>.</span><br/><a href="bios/richard-sherman.html"></a></p> <p><a href="bios/mark-robinson.html"><strong><span>Mark Robinson</span></strong></a><br/>Appointed by Governor Newsom effective July 22, 2022 to a term expiring March 1, 2034; Partner, Centerview Partners; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University; B.A. (History and Political Science), University of California, Berkeley.  </p> <p><strong><a href="bios/greg-sarris.html">Gregory Sarris</a><br/></strong>Appointed by Governor Newsom effective June 29, 2023 to a term expiring March 1, 2026. Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University. <strong><br/></strong></p> <p><a href="bios/richard-sherman.html"><strong>Richard Sherman</strong></a><br/> Appointed by Governor Brown effective January 17, 2014 to a term expiring March 1, 2025; Chief Executive Officer at the Geffen Company; Master of Business Taxation from the University of Southern California.</p> <p><strong><a href="bios/jay-sures.html">Jonathan "Jay" Sures</a></strong><br/> Appointed by Governor Brown effective January 4, 2019 to a term expiring March 1, 2020; re-appointed in 2020 (by Newsom) to a term expiring March 1, 2032; Vice Chairman of United Talent Agency; B.A. (Economics), UCLA.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> <hr/> <h2><a id="ex-officio" name="ex-officio"></a>Ex Officio Regents</h2> <p><strong><a href="http://gov.ca.gov/">Gavin Newsom</a></strong><br/> Governor of California and ex officio Regent, January 7, 2019 - present.</p> <p><a href="https://ltg.ca.gov/"><strong>Eleni Kounalakis</strong> </a><br/>Lieutenant Governor and ex officio Regent, effective January 7, 2019 - present.</p> <p><a href="https://speaker.asmdc.org/"><strong>Robert Rivas</strong></a><a href="http://asmdc.org/speaker/"><br/> </a> Speaker of the Assembly and ex officio Regent, effective June 30, 2023 - present; Assembly member from the 29th district.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/bo/tt/">Tony Thurmond</a></strong><br/> State Superintendent of Public Instruction and ex officio Regent, January 7, 2019 - present.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.ucop.edu/president/">Michael V. Drake, M.D.</a></strong><br/>President of the University and ex officio Regent, August 15, 2020 - present; A.B., Stanford University; M.D., UC San Francisco.</p> <p><a href="bios/geoffrey-pack.html"><strong>Geoffrey Pack</strong></a><br/> Alumni Regent, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025, and Vice President, Alumni Associations of the University of California; Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Master of Science, Durham University; Harvard graduate student (Master of Science in Bioethics); B.S., University of California, Riverside (Anthropology).</p> <p><strong><a href="bios/alfonso-salazar.html">Alfonso Salazar</a><br/> </strong> Alumni Regent, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025, and President, Alumni Associations of the University of California; Master's in Public Policy, University of Michigan; B.A., University of California, Berkeley (Political Science and Ethnic Studies).  </p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> <hr/> <h2><a id="designate" name="designate"></a>Regents-Designate </h2> <p><strong><a href="bios/brian-komoto.html">Brian Komoto</a><br/></strong>Alumni Regent-designate, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025. Alumni Regent, July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026 and Secretary, Alumni Associations of the University of California. <strong><br/></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="bios/ann-wang.html">Ann Wang</a><br/></strong>Alumni Regent-designate, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025. Alumni Regent, July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026 and Treasurer, Alumni Associations of the University of California. B.S., University of California, Los Angeles (International Development Studies).</p> <p><span><a href="bios/sonya-brooks.html"><strong>Sonya Brooks</strong></a><br/>Student Regent-designate, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025; Student Regent, July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026. <br/></span></p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> <hr/> <h2><a id="faculty-reps" name="faculty-reps"></a>Faculty Representatives to the Regents</h2> <p><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/chair-bio.html"><strong>Steven Cheung</strong></a><br/>Faculty Representative to The Regents, September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2025, and current Chair of the Universitywide Academic Senate of the University of California.<br/><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/vice-chair-bio.html"></a></p> <p><strong><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/vice-chair-bio.html">Ahmet Palazoglu</a></strong><br/> Faculty Representative to The Regents, September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2026, and current Vice Chair of the Universitywide Academic Senate of the University of California.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> <hr/> <h2><a id="staff-advisors" name="staff-advisors"></a>Advisors to the Regents</h2> <p><a href="https://staffadvisors.universityofcalifornia.edu/what-is-it/bios/andenet-emiru.html"><strong>Andenet Emiru</strong></a><br/>Staff Advisor, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025; Director of External Partnerships & Projects, UC Health's Center for Data-Driven Insights and Innovation; BA in Management Information Systems, University of Minnesota-Duluth; MBA, St. Cloud State University</p> <p><a href="https://staffadvisors.universityofcalifornia.edu/what-is-it/bios/mayte-frias.html"><strong>Mayté Frías</strong></a><br/>Staff Advisor-designate, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025. Staff Advisor, July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026;</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p></p> </div> <div aria-label="Sidebar" class="right-column" role="region"> <div class="blockborder"> <h2>Board Officers</h2> <p><a href="bios/janet-reilly.html"><img alt="Chair Janet Reilly" height="199" src="../../_documents/_images/reilly.jpg" width="141"/></a></p> <p style="text-align: left;">Chair <a href="bios/janet-reilly.html">Janet Reilly</a></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="bios/maria-anguiano.html"><img alt="Gareth Elliott" height="132" src="../../_documents/_images/maria-anguiano.jpg" width="235"/></a></p> <p style="text-align: left;">Vice Chair <a href="bios/maria-anguiano.html">Maria Anguiano</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="middle-column"></div> </div>  </main>  <footer id="footer"><ul class="upper-line"> <li><a href="http://universityofcalifornia.edu">University of California</a> |</li> <li><a href="http://www.ucop.edu/index.html">Office of the President</a> |</li> <li><a href="http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/">Academic Senate</a></li> </ul> <ul class="lower-line"> <li>© Regents of the University of California |</li> <li><a href="http://www.ucop.edu/terms">Terms of use</a></li> </ul> <div class="social-icons"> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/universityofcalifornia"><img alt="facebook" border="0" height="21" src="../../_files/images/facebook.png" width="20"/></a>  <a href="https://twitter.com/UC_Newsroom"><img alt="twitter" border="0" height="21" src="../../_files/images/twitter.png" width="20"/></a></p> </div></footer>  </div>  </div>  <script src="../../_files/js/placeholders.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="../../_files/js/ga.js"></script> </body> </html>

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