Clayton S. Rose, Ph.D., is the fifteenth president of Bowdoin College. He assumed the position on July 1, 2015, having been elected by a unanimous vote of the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees in January 2015, following an eight-month international search. 
 
Clayton previously served as a member of the faculty at the Harvard Business School (HBS), where he taught and wrote on the responsibilities of leadership, managerial values and ethics, and the role of business in society. His courses at HBS included, among others, an elective course exploring business engagement with society’s larger problems (Reimagining Capitalism), a required course on ethics (Leadership and Corporate Responsibility) and an elective titled "The Moral Leader." He was also engaged administratively at HBS, dealing with issues of community values and standards and the school’s honor code, and was part of a faculty group advising on improving the experience of women faculty and students. He was recognized at HBS for innovation in teaching and for service to the community.
 
Originally from San Rafael, California, Clayton earned his undergraduate degree (1980) and M.B.A. (1981) at the University of Chicago. In 2003, following a highly successful 20-year leadership and management career in finance, he enrolled in the doctoral program in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania to study issues of race in America, earning his master’s degree in 2005 and his Ph.D. with distinction in 2007.