Mark Kennedy (politician)

Mark Kennedy
Congressional portrait, 2001
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Minnesota
In office
January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2007
Preceded byDavid Minge
Succeeded byMichele Bachmann
Constituency2nd district (2001–2003)
6th district (2003–2007)
23rd President of the University of Colorado
In office
July 1, 2019 – July 1, 2021
Preceded byBruce D. Benson
Succeeded byTodd Saliman
12th President of the University of North Dakota
In office
July 1, 2016 – June 15, 2019
Preceded byEd Schafer (acting)
Robert Kelley
Succeeded byJoshua Wynne (acting)
Andrew Armacost
Personal details
Born
Mark Raymond Kennedy

(1957-04-11) April 11, 1957 (age 67)
Benson, Minnesota, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseDebbie Kennedy
Alma materSt. John's University
University of Michigan

Mark Raymond Kennedy (born April 11, 1957) is an American businessman, politician, and university administrator. Following a career as a business executive, he served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota from 2001 to 2007. Kennedy did not seek reelection in 2006, instead running in the 2006 election for U.S. Senate, which he lost to Democratic–Farmer–Labor nominee Amy Klobuchar.

Afterward, he became director of The Graduate School of Political Management in 2012, until serving as the 12th president of the University of North Dakota from 2016 to 2019, and then becoming the 23rd president of the University of Colorado (CU) system, in office from 2019 to 2021.[1][2]

In 2023, Kennedy began serving aa Director of the Wilson Center's Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition.[3]

  1. ^ "Message from the Director". Archived from the original on August 21, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  2. ^ "Mark Kennedy (2019 to 2021)". University of Colorado.
  3. ^ "Wilson Center Launches Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition to Shape Conversations and Reforms in Era of Great Power Competition | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved February 6, 2023.