Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D. is the 10th President of Hebrew Union College. A leading scholar of political representation and a distinguished Jewish communal leader, Dr. Rehfeld has bridged both the academic and professional worlds.
The author of The Concept of Constituency (Cambridge University Press, 2005), a book of applied political theory, President Rehfeld received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and served as a member of the tenured faculty in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis (2001 to 2019) and as President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis (2012 to 2019). He is currently on the boards of directors for the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the JDC).
As HUC-JIR President, Dr. Rehfeld leads the multi-campus international institution of Jewish higher education and seminary for Reform Judaism, which educates leaders to serve the Jewish People worldwide as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers distinctive graduate programs to scholars and clergy. He also holds a tenured faculty position as a Professor of Political Thought.