Jim Husson is the senior vice president for university advancement at Boston College, overseeing the university's development and alumni relations functions. He joined the development team in 2002 as the vice president for development and was promoted to his current position in June 2004. He and his colleagues spearheaded "Light the World," the university's 150th anniversary campaign, which concluded in 2016, having raised a record $1.6 billion in gifts from more than 140,000 alumni, parents and friends.

Husson has nearly 30 years of experience in educational advancement and has served as the vice president for development for Brown University and as the director of major gifts for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Early in his career, he worked for two private secondary schools, Northfield Mount Hermon School and Cushing Academy, and for the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

He first joined the SIEFR faculty in 2008 and also served CASE as chair of the CASE 40 Data Task Force.

Husson is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Northfield Mount Hermon School.