Barry Munitz is trustee professor at California State University, Los Angeles, and president of the Cotsen Family Foundations. He is founding chair of California's P-16 Council, a group of education, business and community leaders charged with developing strategies to improve education for preschool through college. Munitz also chairs the President's Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and led the Board of Trustees of Sierra Nevada College. He is chancellor emeritus of California State University, the largest system of senior education in the country, and served previously as president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He is a governor of the Broad Family Foundations, a corporate director at Sallie Mae, chair of the Prospect Global Resources Board and a former chair of the American Council of Education Board. Munitz was chancellor of the University of Houston and academic vice president of the University of Illinois system. He received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University.