Senior Advisor, CNQ Global Advisors
18th President, Northwestern University; former Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State.
Read the bio →Mung Chiang is a Senior Advisor to CNQ Global Advisors, a global geopolitical and strategic advisory firm chaired by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Chiang is the 18th President of Northwestern University. From 2023 to 2026, he was the 13th President of Purdue University. Prior to that, he was the Dean of College of Engineering at Purdue University since 2017, and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University before then. In 2019-20, he served for one year as the Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State.
Chiang received BS, MS and PhD from Stanford University and an Honorary Doctorate from Dartmouth College. His research in wireless communication, Internet technology, and edge computing received the 2013 NSF Alan T. Waterman Award and the 2025 IEEE Founders Medal. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science.
Chiang currently chairs the Board of the U.S. Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation, a congressionally-chartered nonprofit for the U.S. Department of Energy, and is an elected member of the Board of Directors for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.