Board of Trustees
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees is comprised of 15 persons charged with promoting the sound development of the University, helping it to serve the people of the state in a way that will complement the activities of other UNC System institutions and aiding it to perform at a high level of excellence in every area of endeavor. The board serves as an adviser to the UNC Board of Governors on matters pertaining to its institution and also serves as adviser to the chancellor concerning the management and development of the institution.
Chancellor
Lee H. Roberts was named the 13th chancellor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 9, 2024, after serving as interim chancellor. Before that, he was the co-founder and managing partner of SharpVue Capital, a North Carolina investment firm that specializes in stewarding institutional funds and growing local economies.
A dedicated public servant, Roberts was state budget director under Republican Gov. Pat McCrory from 2014 to 2016. He is a strong supporter of higher education, serving as a member of the UNC System Board of Governors and as the chair of its budget committee.
For the last five years, he has taught budgeting at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He has also served North Carolina through his positions on the State Board of Community Colleges, North Carolina’s Banking Commission, the Board of Visitors at the Sanford School and the Golden LEAF Foundation.
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Provost
Magnus Egerstedt began his role as executive vice chancellor and provost on March 2, 2026. He previously served as the Dean of Engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to UCI, Egerstedt was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, serving as the School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.
He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of multi-robot systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the International Federation of Automatic Control, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, and a past President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.