Vice Provost, Research Translation

16 hours ago


Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Isaacson, Miller Full time

NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks an entrepreneurial and skilled leader to serve as the Vice Provost for Research Translation and Entrepreneurship. The Vice-Provost for Research Translation and Entrepreneurship (VP-RTE) will provide positive and collaborative leadership in research innovation, translation, industry and community engagement, and enterprise development. They will work closely with the deans and other members of the Provost Office to identify, foster, and promote ideas with potential for translation and positive societal and commercial impact. They will also need to collaborate with similar offices at NYU NY and will require coordination with NYU NY to develop policies and guidelines. A key element will include a strong collaboration with startAD, a global accelerator steering seed-stage technology start-ups in the UAE and with a strong relationship to NYUAD. The VP-RTE will be coming to a university that is growing and ambitious for its future and playing a pivotal role in the development of Abu Dhabi.

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. The global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities. NYUAD’s current academic strategy seeks to bolster innovative and high caliber research; provide transformative and innovative undergraduate and graduate education; and foster development, innovation, and engagement that will have a positive societal impact in Abu Dhabi and beyond.

Interested applicants should submit a current CV/resume and statement of interest electronically below. Nomination and inquiries should also be submitted electronically below. Application reviews will begin immediately and continue until the completion of the search process.

Sean Farrell is leading this search with Kahn Lee.



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