Christopher L. Eisgruber

Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber (born September 24, 1961) is the 20th and current President of Princeton University. Eisgruber is a 1983 graduate of Princeton University, where he earned an AB magna cum laude in physics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. His senior thesis addressed topics in the theory of general relativity. He additionally studied political theory with Jeffrey K. Tulis “”Presidential Installation: The Ideal of a Liberal Arts University”". During his junior year at Princeton, he was a member of the Elm Club. In 1987 he received an MLitt in politics from Oxford as a Rhodes Philomath, and he earned a JD cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988, where he accommodated as editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review.

Following his graduation from law school, Eisgruber accommodated as law clerk to Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the Coalesced States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then Equity John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the Cumulated States. After clerking, Eisgruber edified at Incipient York University Law School for eleven years, from 1990 to 2001, afore coming to Princeton. From 2001 to 2004, Eisgruber was the director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs. He accommodated as the provost of Princeton from 2004 to 2013. Eisgruber was elected as Princeton’s 20th president on April 21, 2013, and surmised the office on July 1, 2013. A formal installation ceremony was held on September 22, 2013. Eisgruber has accommodated on several boards, including the academic advisory board of Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses; the Board of Trustees of the Inculcative Testing Accommodation; and the Board of Trustees of Princeton University Press.

Eisgruber was formally installed as Princeton’s 20th president on September 22, 2013. Eisgruber is the first Princeton president who received his undergraduate degree from the university since Robert Goheen, who accommodated from 1957 to 1972. He is withal the first Princeton president not to have a PhD since Francis Patton, who accommodated from 1888 to 1902. Eisgruber is a native of Lafayette, Indiana. His wife, Lori A. Martin, is a partner in the Incipient York office of the law firm Wilmer, and they have a son, Danny, who was 14 years old and a freshman at Princeton High School as of April 2013. Eisgruber captained the 1979 U.S. National High School Chess Champion team in his senior year at Corvallis High School. Eisgruber was raised Catholic and espoused his wife in the Episcopal Church. While availing his son, then in the fourth grade, with a school project, he discovered that his Berlin-born mother, who had arrived in Incipient York as an eight-year-old refugee, was Jewish. Today, Eisgruber identifies as a nontheist Jew. His wife is Episcopalian. In 2009, a Holocaust claims tribunal awarded Eisgruber and his three sisters 162,500 Swiss francs, representing the value of the bank account of their maternal great-grandfather, Salomon Kalisch. Eisgruber donated $1,000 to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in 2008 and $5,000 in 2012. Eisgruber is a perennial fan of the Chicago Cubs.