Jim Davis

President
The University of Texas at Austin

Jim Davis serves as the 31st President of The University of Texas at Austin. A resident of Austin since 1974, Jim has served the University since 2018 as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and as Vice President for Legal Affairs and Business Strategies. Across those roles, Jim’s leadership and impact has spanned a number of UT’s transformational projects.

Jim has played central roles in development of a new academic medical center for the Dell Medical School and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the Texas Institute for Electronics semiconductor consortium, infrastructure planning for the redevelopment of I-35 adjacent to campus, the Tower restoration project and the development of Innovation Tower in the Austin Innovation District. Jim led plans to build new undergraduate and graduate housing to address affordability challenges, founded the University’s Discovery to Impact research commercialization program to support faculty innovation, established the University’s first commercial investment fund and proof of concept fund to provide critical resources to faculty entrepreneurs and managed the launch of the West Campus Ambassador program to improve safety and security for students, staff and faculty.

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