The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland,the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley,Davis,Irvine,Los Angeles,Merced,Riverside,San Diego,San Francisco,Santa Barbara,and Santa Cruz,along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. The system is the state's land-grant university.
The University of California,Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley,California,United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley,it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system.
The University of California,Davis is a public land-grant research university in Davis,California,United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institution was first founded as an agricultural branch of the system in 1905,known as the University Farm,and became the sixth campus of the University of California in 1959.
The Walter A. Haas School of Business is the business school of the University of California,Berkeley,a public research university in Berkeley,California. It was the first business school at a public university in the United States.
The University of California,Berkeley College of Engineering is the public engineering school of the University of California,Berkeley. Established in 1931,it occupies fourteen buildings on the northeast side of the main campus and also operates the 150-acre (61-hectare) Richmond Field Station. It is also considered highly selective and is consistently ranked among the top engineering schools in both the nation and the world.
Thomas John Campbell is an American academic,educator,and politician. He is a professor of law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law,and a professor of economics at the George Argyros School of Business and Economics,at Chapman University,in Orange,California.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California,Berkeley and a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She served as the 16th Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and 2nd Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. Tyson was the first woman to hold each of those posts. She remains the only person to have served in both posts.
The Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy,or the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP),is a public policy school and one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California,Berkeley. Originally named the Graduate School of Public Policy,it was founded in 1969 as one of the first public policy institutions in the United States.
The University of California College of the Law,San Francisco is a public law school in San Francisco,California,United States. It was known as the University of California,Hastings College of the Law from 1878 to 2023.
Li Choh-ming was a Chinese-born American economist and educator. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1963. He compiled The Li Chinese Dictionary (Cantonese-Mandarin). He was an economics professor at the University of California,Berkeley and at Nankai University in Tianjin during his academic career.
Carol Tecla Christ is an American former academic administrator. She served as the 11th Chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley,from 2017 to 2024.
David John Teece is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley.
Suzanne Scotchmer was an American professor of law,economics and public policy at the University of California,Berkeley,and a noted author on many economic subjects. She earned her B.A. from University of Washington magna cum laude in 1970,her M.A. in statistics from UC Berkeley in 1979,and her PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 1980.
William Warren Riggs or "Billy" Riggs is an author,city planner,entrepreneur and professor of Management at University of San Francisco,and an international expert in the areas of sustainable transport,technology,urban development and the future of cities. He is the author of the book,End of the Road:Reimagining the Street as the Heart of the City and Disruptive Transport:Driverless Cars,Transport Innovation and the Sustainable City of Tomorrow. He has worked as a professional planner,in venture capital for Just Business and a strategic consultant for various technology firms and startups. He also has experience as a successful recording artist and music producer,having worked on award-winning projects with Frances England,Gabriel Riggs and Carlos Villarreal.
Jennifer A. Chatman, an American academic,is the interim dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley and the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management. Chatman is also the Co-Director of the Berkeley Haas Culture Initiative,the Assistant Dean for Learning Strategies at the Haas School of Business,and editor for the journal Research in Organizational Behavior.
George W. Breslauer is an academic in the field of social sciences and the former executive vice chancellor and provost of UC Berkeley.
Ann E. Harrison was the 15th Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley,and the second woman to head the top-ranked business school. Dean Harrison is an economist and one of the most highly-cited scholars on foreign investment and multinational firms.
Catherine D. Wolfram is an American micro-economist,academic,and researcher who is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previously,she served as a Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration and associate dean for academic affairs at the Haas School of Business at University of California,Berkeley where she also served as a faculty director of The E2e Project and as scientific director for energy and the environment at Center for Effective Global Action. She also directed the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program.
