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Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D.
President at Baylor University

Dr. Linda Livingstone has served as the 15th president of Baylor University since 2017. She previously served as dean of The George Washington University School of Business and as dean of Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. Under Dr. Livingstone’s leadership, Baylor was designated a Research 1 university – one of only a few R1 institutions with an explicit, primary identity as a Christian university. During her tenure, Baylor also completed its most successful fundraising campaign with over $1.5 billion raised. Dr. Livingstone previously chaired the NCAA Board of Governors and the American Council on Education Board. Currently, she is the lead independent director of the Board of Capital Southwest Industrials and serves on the Big 12 Conference Board of Directors, the Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees and the North American Baptist Fellowship Executive Committee.

Sara Custer
Editor in Chief at Inside Higher Ed

Sara Custer became Inside Higher Ed's editor in chief in March 2024. Before joining Inside Higher Ed, she was editor of Times Higher Education's (THE) Campus, a collection of daily resources designed for higher education faculty and staff members to learn, share and connect with colleagues at universities and colleges worldwide. Prior to that, she shaped THE’s online presence as its digital editor, helping to launch THE’s newsletter strategy and overseeing daily, weekly and monthly publications. From 2012 to 2017, she served as editor and senior reporter at The PIE News, covering the international education industry. Sara grew up in Cushing, Okla., and earned a B.A. in English literature from Loyola University Chicago and an M.A. in international journalism from City, University of London.

Byron R. Johnson, Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Global Flourishing Study, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, Founding Director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion and Founding Director of the Institute for Global Human Flourishing at Baylor University

Dr. Johnson holds degrees from Minot State University (B.A.), Middle Tennessee State University (M.A.), the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (M.S.) and Florida State University (Ph.D.). He is a faculty affiliate of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Dr. Johnson has been the principal investigator on grants from private foundations as well as the Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health and the United States Institute for Peace, totaling more than $90 million. He is the author of many journal articles, monographs and books. He is recognized as a leading authority on the scientific study of religion, the efficacy of faith-based organizations and criminal justice.

Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Global Flourishing Study, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion at Harvard

Dr. VanderWeele holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance and biostatistics. His methodological research is focused on theory and methods for distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences and, more recently, on psychosocial measurement theory. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology, the science of happiness and flourishing, and the study of religion and health. He is the recipient of the 2017 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). He has published more than 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of numerous books.

Daniel Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Principal Investigator of the Healthy Minds Network for Research on Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health

Dr. Eisenberg holds degrees in economics from Stanford and completed postdoctoral training in mental health services and policy research at UC Berkeley. His research is focused on improving the understanding of how to invest effectively in the mental health of young people. He is a principal investigator for the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), a national survey of college student mental health and related factors. First launched in 2005, the HMS is the largest national study examining mental health, service utilization and related issues among college populations. Dr. Eisenberg recently published a book, Investing in Children's Mental Health (2023, Oxford University Press), which examines child and youth mental health from an economics and policy perspective.

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