Javier Reyes is the 12th and current

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of the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. Reyes is an

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and the first

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to serve as the chancellor of UMass Amherst. He was provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the

University of Illinois Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois sy ...

and was later interim chancellor. Reyes also previously served as

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of the

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and as vice president for the state's economic development program Startup West Virginia.

Biography

Reyes was born and raised in

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. He attended

Tecnológico de Monterrey Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, where he earned his bachelor's degree in economics. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

. He joined the economics faculty of the

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in 2003. At Arkansas, Reyes would rise to multiple high-level administrative positions at the university. Reyes was later

of the

. He was provost at the

(UIC) and later the interim chancellor starting in July 2022. On February 16, 2023, Reyes was appointed as chancellor of the

; he began serving in the role in July 2023.

References

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