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Dr. McClain was appointed as the President of the 10-campus University of Hawaii System effective March 2006, having served as Interim President from August 15, 2004, and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the UH System from July 1, 2003. From 2000 until 2003 he was the Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, as well as First Hawaiian Bank Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Management; he was also Interim Vice President for Research of the University of Hawaii System from February to September 2003. Dr. McClain joined the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1991 as the Henry A. Walker, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Business Enterprise and Professor of Financial Economics and Institutions. Dr. McClain is a director of First Insurance Company, and serves as a member of several nonprofit boards in Hawaii. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Kansas in 1968. Dr. McClain has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and at Boston University, where he chaired the Department of Finance and Economics. He also served as Senior Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisors to President Jimmy Carter, and headed international economic information services for Data Resources, Inc. He resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. | 