Dr. David Wilson is the president of Morgan State University. He came to Morgan from the University of Wisconsin, where he was chancellor of both the University of Wisconsin Colleges and the University of Wisconsin–Extension. Before that, he served as vice president for University Outreach and associate provost at Auburn University, and associate provost at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. 

Dr. Wilson has authored two books and more than 20 articles in scholarly journals and other publications. He was named one of the nation’s top 100 leaders in higher education by the American Association of Higher Education in 1998. 

Dr. Wilson serves on the NCAA Board of Governors and Division I Board of Directors and the Lumina Foundation Board of Directors. Prior to this election, the U.S Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology had appointed him to serve a three-year term as a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology. He is the chairman of the HBCU/China Network, a member of the Maryland Cybersecurity Council and the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Governing Board and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Greater Baltimore Committee, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. In 2010, he was appointed to the Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.  

Dr. Wilson holds four academic degrees: a B.S. in political science and an M.S. in education from Tuskegee University; an Ed.M. in educational planning and administration and an Ed.D. in administration, planning and social policy from Harvard.