President L. Rafael Reif

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President L. Rafael Reif

L. Rafael Reif has served as the 17th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since July 2012. Before taking on the presidency, Dr. Reif served for seven years as MIT’s Provost. In this role, he helped create and implement the strategy that allowed MIT to weather the global financial crisis; drove the growth of MIT’s global strategy; promoted a major faculty-led effort to address challenges around race and diversity; fostered the emergence of the Kendall Square innovation cluster; and spearheaded the development of the Institute’s latest experiment in online learning, MITx, for which he received the 2012 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award.