Well.. sort of.

He may be the next President of Harvard University.

Drew Gilpin Faust, the current President of Harvard University, is set to step down in June, 2018.  She assumed office in July, 2007.

How will she be succeeded by?

Deirdre Fernandes and Laura Krantz of the Boston Globe have listed Barack Obama, among six others individuals from the Harvard community, as possibilities –

Alan M. Garber

Nitin Nohria (pictured to the right of Obama in the featured image)

David W. Leebron

Shirley Ann Jackson

Michael M. Crow

Janet Yellen (pictured to the left of Obama in the featured image)

I wish Obama the best of luck if he does indeed wish to become the next President of Harvard University.

 

Some closing notes and other data –

(a)  Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991

(b)  Obama served as the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review

(c)  evidently Faust was paid $1.2 million in total compensation from Harvard in 2014 (data isn’t available for 2015 or 2016)

(d)  should Obama write a White House memoir before he embarks on an education career (e.g., President of Harvard University)?