Myles Brand, Ph.D

President, Indiana University

In his first year as IU president, Brand initiated the Strategic Directions Charter. An integral part of the charter has been to promote stellar scientific and medical research at IU. This plan builds on the university’s long tradition of academic excellence, while creating strong partnerships with private and public entities that serve the common good of communities, state and nation.

Such partnerships have flourished under Brand’s leadership. The consolidation of the IU Medical Center hospitals and services with Indianapolis’ Methodist Hospital in 1996 led to the formation of Clarian Health, the largest single privatization endeavor in Indiana history.

In 1998, the university signed the first-of-its-kind licensing agreement with Microsoft Corporation, providing IU students, faculty and staff free access to Microsoft products.

In 1999, under Brand’s guidance, IU received a $29.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to develop the Indiana Pervasive Computing Research Initiative.

Before coming to IU, Brand was president at the University of Oregon, where, in the face of major financial constraints wrought by decreased state funding, he launched a capital campaign to strengthen that institution’s research initiatives and projects. From 1986 to 1989, he was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Ohio State University. He also held academic and administrative posts at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh.

The IU president has served in leadership roles on various academic boards, including the Indiana Conference on Higher Education, National Association of State and Land Grant Universities, Association of American Universities, and the Commission on Human Resources and Social Change.

Brand, who earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., also holds faculty appointments in the departments of philosophy at IU Bloomington and IUPUI.