Dr Michael M Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader.

He became the 16th president of Arizona State University (ASU) in July 2002. He has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. It has been voted the US’s most innovative university by US News & World Report for nine continuous years. Under Michael’s leadership, ASU has established more than 25 new transdisciplinary schools, including the School of Earth and Space Exploration. It has launched trailblazing multidisciplinary initiatives including the Biodesign Institute, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.