Chair of the Board
Vice Chancellor, Professor, NYU Shanghai
Jeffrey S. Lehman is the inaugural vice chancellor of NYU Shanghai (the first “Sino-American Joint University”) and Chair of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
He was previously president of Cornell University, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and founder of the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He has also been a tenured professor of law and public policy, a practicing lawyer, and a law clerk to Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.
His honors include China’s Friendship Award, Shanghai Honorary Citizenship, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s National Equal Justice Award, a year as senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, presidency of the American Law Deans Association, membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, membership in the National Committee on US-China Relations, and life membership in the American Law Institute.
In 2018, China named him one of the 40 “most influential foreign experts” during the country’s 40-year period of “reform and opening up.”