Peter McPherson
Peter McPherson is president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, or NASULGC, the association of large public universities.
McPherson is the former chair of Dow Jones and Company. He is the founding co-chair of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa and the chair of the boards of IFDC, an organization working on fertilizer and seed issues in the developing world. He is also chair of the board of Harvest Plus, an organization working on breeding crops for better nutrition.
Prior to joining NASULGC, McPherson was president of Michigan State University for 11 years. McPherson was an executive vice president with Bank of America and deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He also was administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and, in that role, was responsible for the U.S. effort for famine relief in Africa in 1984-85. He was a partner and head of the Washington office of a large Ohio law firm. He was a special assistant to President Gerald Ford in the White House.
