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Thomas W. Ross is the retired President of the Volcker Alliance, a New York City based non-profit focused on advancing the effective management of government. He also serves as the Sanford Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy at the Duke University Sanford School for Public Policy. Ross is President Emeritus of the 17-campus University of North Carolina having served as President from 2011-2016.

Prior to becoming President of the UNC System, Ross served as President of Davidson College, executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, a Superior Court judge, chief of staff to a U.S. Congressman, a member of a Greensboro, NC law firm and as a Professor of Public Law and Government at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Government. Ross holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Davidson College and graduated with honors from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law.