Barry Munitz is President and CEO of the Cotsen Foundations for the Art of Teaching and for Academic Research, Chancellor Emeritus of the California State University System, and retired President/CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.  He is also the Founding Chair of Generation Three, an international family office, and helped to build the Panetta Institute for Public Policy where he remains as an advisory board member. 

Munitz is a member of the Fossey Gorilla Fund Science and Education Committee, is on the Executive Committee of WorkingNation, continues as an original partner/director of Rocky Mountain Resources and its’ subsidiaries, and chaired the San Diego Zoo Foundation Board. He was a Trustee at the Courtauld Institute in London, led the Houston Grand Opera board, and was for 20 years a director of Navient (formerly Sallie Mae), as well as being a director of the publicly held entities Sun America, Kaufman & Broad, and LeapFrog. 

Munitz was an initial board member of the Broad Family Foundations, including the sole vice chair of its education entity (The Broad Center).  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and held the White House seat on the Congressional Higher Education Cost Commission.  He chaired the boards for Sierra Nevada College and for the American Council of Education and was the only head of California’s P-16 Council.  A Princeton University Emeritus Trustee, Munitz also supervised the transition committee for Governor-Elect Gray Davis, continues as a Director of Sherry Lansing’s EnCorps Foundation, served as Senior Advisor to the Milken Institute, and was a Radcliffe Trustee on a task force to complete their merger with Harvard University.  Munitz holds honorary degrees from Whittier College, Claremont Graduate University, the California State University, the University of Southern California, Notre Dame, Pepperdine, and the University of Edinburgh.