Seth Green
Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies
1427 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.4950
sethgreen@uchicago.edu
Seth Green is the dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago. Under his leadership, the school has grown more than fourfold, strengthened its storied tradition in the lifelong liberal arts, and built new programs in advanced leadership.
Before joining UChicago, Green served as founding director of the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility at Loyola University Chicago. During his tenure, the Center launched a top-ranked specialty MBA program, a nationally significant award for social innovation in business, and an array of educational programs and events that annually engaged more than 4,000 learners. Green also served as an executive lecturer in Loyola's Quinlan School of Business, receiving recognition as the Mission-Driven Faculty Member of the Year in 2021.
Prior to Loyola, Green led Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), a nonprofit organization that prepares low-income youth for post-secondary and life success. At Y.O.U., Green oversaw nearly fourfold growth in youth served and a $16.4 million fundraising campaign to build a state-of-the-art youth center. He also spearheaded two strategic planning processes, resulting in an enhanced program model and deepened impact. Alongside Y.O.U., Green taught courses on nonprofit management as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University.
Earlier in his career, Green worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, guiding private-sector clients through strategy development and change management. A recipient of McKinsey’s Community Fellowship, he spent one year of his time at the firm supporting nonprofit clients, including the Gates Foundation and United Way.
Green speaks and writes on social innovation. His commentaries and research have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Fortune Magazine, Journal of Business Research, and Social Innovations Journal, and he previously served on the Editorial Review Board of Business and Society Review. Green has been a featured guest on Slate Podcasts, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, and CNN, and his efforts have been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2008, Utne Reader named him one of fifty “Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”
Green’s civic service centers on education, the arts, and public-interest research. He serves on the boards of NORC, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, North Shore Country Day School, and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, and on the Membership Committee of the Economic Club of Chicago. He has previously served on the campaign cabinet of the United Way of Metro Chicago, the impact investing advisory council of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, the advisory board of Concordia Place, and the advisory board of the Executives’ Club of Chicago.
A Marshall Scholar, Green holds a JD from Yale University, a master’s in women’s studies from Oxford University, a master’s in development studies from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University.