Clayton Rose

Clayton S. Rose is the fifteenth and current president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Originally from San Rafael, California, Rose graduated from the University of Chicago as an undergraduate in 1980 and with an M.B.A. in 1981. In 2003, following a 20-year leadership and management career in finance, he enrolled in the doctoral program in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania to study issues of race in America, earning his master's degree in 2005 and his Ph.D. with distinction in 2007. He had previously served as a professor at Harvard Business School from 2007 until his appointment at Bowdoin. Rose officially succeeded Barry Mills as president of Bowdoin on July 1, 2015.