Montse Fuentes

Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes is the 24th President of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. In this role, she serves as the first Hispanic and second female president. Prior to this appointment, she joined the University of Iowa (UI) as executive vice president and provost in June 2019 and professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science in the College of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, and professor of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health. She came to the UI from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she served as dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, as well as professor of Statistics, and professor of Biostatistics in the School of Medicine. Before joining Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016, Fuentes was head of the Department of Statistics and James M. Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University (NC State). Prior to that, she served as director of the Network on Statistical Methods in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. A National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded center to promote multi-institutional and interdisciplinary research training at the interface of statistics and atmospheric and oceanic sciences, with 200 members and 21 affiliated institutions.