Dr. Patrick T. Harker is the 26th President of the University of Delaware, a position that he assumed on July 1, 2007. Concurrent with his appointment as President, Dr. Harker was appointed as a Professor of Business Administration in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in UD's College of Engineering. Before coming to Delaware, Dr. Harker was the Dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise. Dr. Harker was appointed as Dean on February 8, 2000, after serving as both the Interim Dean and Deputy Dean of the school. Dr. Harker was also a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and held a secondary appointment as a Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Goldman Sachs Trust and the Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust, as well as serving as a member of the Board of Managers of the Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Partners Registered Fund LLC and as a founding member of the Board of Advisers for Decision Lens, Inc. In nonprofit leadership, Dr. Harker served as a Member of the Diocesan Finance Council for the Diocese of Camden, N.J., and is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.