Leadership | UNC-Chapel Hill
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Leadership | UNC-Chapel Hill
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Board of Trustees
Strong guidance, responsive stewardship and sound decision-making: The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the flagship campus of the UNC System, provides all these actions as it works to ensure that the University serves the people of North Carolina. The 15-person board advises the UNC Board of Governors on behalf of Carolina and advises the chancellor on issues of campus management and development, advancing excellence that will benefit Carolina’s students, the state and all the member institutions of the UNC System for years to come.
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Chancellor
Lee H. Roberts was named the 13th chancellor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 9, 2024, after serving as interim chancellor. Before that, he was the co-founder and managing partner of SharpVue Capital, a North Carolina investment firm that specializes in stewarding institutional funds and growing local economies.
A dedicated public servant, Roberts was state budget director under Republican Gov. Pat McCrory from 2014 to 2016. He is a strong supporter of higher education, serving as a member of the UNC System Board of Governors and as the chair of its budget committee.
For the last five years, he has taught budgeting at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He has also served North Carolina through his positions on the State Board of Community Colleges, North Carolina’s Banking Commission, the Board of Visitors at the Sanford School and the Golden LEAF Foundation.
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Provost
Magnus Egerstedt
began his role as executive vice chancellor and provost
on March 2, 2026. He previously served as the Dean of Engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to UCI, Egerstedt was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, serving as the School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.
He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of multi-robot systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the International Federation of Automatic Control, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, and a past President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
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March 17th, 2026
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Board of Trustees
Strong guidance, responsive stewardship and sound decision-making: The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the flagship campus of the UNC System, provides all these actions as it works to ensure that the University serves the people of North Carolina. The 15-person board advises the UNC Board of Governors on behalf of Carolina and advises the chancellor on issues of campus management and development, advancing excellence that will benefit Carolina’s students, the state and all the member institutions of the UNC System for years to come.
Read more about the Board of Trustees
Chancellor
Lee H. Roberts was named the 13th chancellor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 9, 2024, after serving as interim chancellor. Before that, he was the co-founder and managing partner of SharpVue Capital, a North Carolina investment firm that specializes in stewarding institutional funds and growing local economies.
A dedicated public servant, Roberts was state budget director under Republican Gov. Pat McCrory from 2014 to 2016. He is a strong supporter of higher education, serving as a member of the UNC System Board of Governors and as the chair of its budget committee.
For the last five years, he has taught budgeting at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He has also served North Carolina through his positions on the State Board of Community Colleges, North Carolina’s Banking Commission, the Board of Visitors at the Sanford School and the Golden LEAF Foundation.
Read more about the chancellor
Provost
Magnus Egerstedt
began his role as executive vice chancellor and provost
on March 2, 2026. He previously served as the Dean of Engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to UCI, Egerstedt was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, serving as the School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.
He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of multi-robot systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the International Federation of Automatic Control, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, and a past President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
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