Expertise: University President, Author & Professor

Available for in-person lectures in: Naples/Ft. Myers & Sarasota

Available via Zoom? Yes

To book King, e-mail: dan@hudakonhollywood.com

F. King Alexander has been a president and chancellor of four public universities in the United States for over two decades including Louisiana State University, Murray State University in Kentucky and California State University, Long Beach, which recently led the nation in improving student social mobility in the Social Mobility Index rankings. He currently serves as a professor of educational leadership, finance, law and public policy at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. Additionally, he is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama, a faculty researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Global Higher Education (UK) and a former Faculty Affiliate at the Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute for two decades. He has authored or co-authored five books and authored thirty-two book chapters and academic journal articles. He also has testified to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate three times on the issue of rising college costs and has been a contributor to many media outlets including The Economist, The Washington Post, the Financial Times, Politico, Inside Higher Education, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Hechinger Report and the Times Higher Education (THE) of the London Times. His areas of academic expertise are higher education and education policy, finance and law. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Oxford (UK) and St. Lawrence University in New York.