Dr. Mark R. Hagerott is Chancellor for the North Dakota University System. Previously, he served on the faculty and held numerous academic leadership roles at the United States Naval Academy. He served as a planning and strategy director at NATO Training Mission, which included the Afghanistan army, police, air force, and medical school programs. He served as distinguished professor and deputy director of the Center for Cyber Security Studies at the Naval Academy and served on the Defense Science Board summer study of unmanned systems. He is a commissioner on the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Dr. Hagerott chaired the Secretary of the Navy’s Education Reform Task Force in 2022. 

Dr. Hagerott has held numerous leadership positions in the U.S. Navy. A certified naval nuclear engineer in power generation and distribution, he served as chief engineer for a major environmental project defueling of two atomic reactors. Hagerott also ran tactical data networks for the Navy and rose to ship command prior to his career in higher education. He also served as a White House Fellow and in the office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense.   

He is the author of multiple articles and book chapters, with a recent emphasis on unmanned systems. He served as a non-resident cyber Fellow of the New America Foundation. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.A. in political science and economics from Oxford University where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in history from University of Maryland.