Edward B. Montgomery

Montgomery became the ninth President of Western Michigan University in August of 2017. Previously, he served as Dean of Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy. He has had a long career as a labor economist, studying interactions between the macroeconomy and the labor market. He served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor in the Clinton Administration, and was a senior leader in designing and implementing the policy efforts to save the U.S. auto industry in the Obama Administration.