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Ravi S. Rajan is the president of the [California Institute of the Arts](/org/california-institute-of-the-arts). Having studied music and worked with time-based and interactive media since 1993, he is an artist and producer whose work reaches across disciplines. Ravi is also a teacher and a leader with a reputation for developing innovative and visionary initiatives.

Before CalArts, Ravi lived in New York City for 18 years. He held multiple leadership roles at Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY Purchase), taught students from kindergarten through university at various institutions, and worked with faculty and artists on multimedia projects at [Yale University](/org/yale-university) and The Rockefeller University.

Ravi has degrees from Yale and the University of Oklahoma and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK) in 2010. He has served on and has led various nonprofit boards supporting media, social justice, diversity, the arts, and education worldwide. He has been a member of the TONY Awards Nominating Committee, and serves on many other selection panels that provide assistance, scholarship, fellowships, and recognition to artists and arts organizations.

Ravi S. Rajan

Iwan Wirth

Theresa Strempek

Susan Steinhauser

Clark Spencer

Cauleen Smith

Michael Skloff

David L. Schiff

Tom Rothman

Tina Perry

Ramsey Naito

Greg McWilliams

Jamie Alter Lynton

Thomas Lloyd

David G. Johnson

Charmaine Jefferson

Karen Hillenburg

Rick Haskins

Wesley Garcia

Rodrigo García

David I. Fisher

Jonathan Dolgen

Caroline Cronson

Clarissa Crawford

Melissa Cobb

Don Cheadle

Troy Carter

David A. Bossert

Lyndon Barrois

President, 
The Jefferson Institute
Los Angeles

Joan Abrahamson

Vice Chair, CalArts Board of Trustees
Senior Vice President
Capital Research Global Investors
Los Angeles 

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