Betsy hoffman, PH.D.
Senior Consultant
Areas of Expertise: Governance and administration, faculty affairs, academic affairs and research
Elizabeth Hoffman is currently Professor of Economics at Iowa State University. Previously, she was Executive Vice President and Provost at Iowa State University and President of the University of Colorado System. While President of the CU system, she oversaw the 2004 consolidation of the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center into the combined University of Colorado Denver. She holds doctoral degrees in economics and history and has been an accomplished university administrator, faculty member, and researcher over a career spanning more than 40 years.
She served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she also held concurrent academic appointments as professor of economics, history, political science and psychology, as well as professor in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs.
She joined UIC after serving as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. Before moving to Iowa State in 1993, she held academic and administrative positions at the University of Florida, Northwestern University, Purdue University, the University of Wyoming and the University of Arizona.
She is currently on the Board of Marsico Capital Management (MCM). She has also served on the Smith College Board of Trustees (2008-2018), the board of the Science Center of Iowa (2008-2018), the board of the Association for University Research in Astronomy (2008-2015), and the National Science Board (2002-2008).
She earned a doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and a second doctorate in economics from California Institute of Technology in 1979. She received a bachelor’s degree in history from Smith College in 1968 and a master’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969.