James E Ryan

James E. Ryan has served as the president of the University of Virginia, the dean of the Harvard Graduate Education School, and as a law professor. An expert on law and education, Ryan graduated summa cum laude from Yale and was firs in his class at the University of Virginia Law School. He clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist and has also argued before the Supreme Court. He is the author of Five Miles Away, A World Apart and the New York Times bestseller Wait, What? And Life's Other Essential Questions, based on his viral Harvard Commencement speech. A life-long athlete, Ryan played rugby in college and recently completed his 15th consecutive Boston Marathon. Ryan and his wife, Katie, who was a classmate at the University of Virginia Law School, have four grown children--Will, Sam, Ben, and Phebe.