Richard A. Skinner

Richard Skinner was named senior vice president for research and programs of AGB in June 2007 with a portfolio of responsibilities that encompasses both public and independent colleges and universities, related foundations, board education and consulting services, the Zwingle Resource Center, and AGB’s annual series of conferences, meeting, institutes, and workshops.

Prior to joining AGB, Skinner served as president of three higher education organizations, including American and Canadian universities. From 2002 to 2006, Skinner served as president and vice chancellor of Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, and provided leadership to that institution’s initiatives in China and Southeast Asia.

Before his move to Canada, he served as president and chief executive officer of a pioneering unit of the University System of Georgia charged with marketing and coordinating the distance learning offerings of 34 colleges and universities. This appointment followed his presidency of Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta, where Skinner led the largest deployment of mobile computing at the time in American higher education and initiated a major public-private partnership focused in real estate development adjacent to the Clayton campus.

Skinner holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Government and International Studies from the University of South Carolina, with additional study at the University of Michigan and the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

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