Dr. Reynold Verret is the sixth president and second lay leader of Xavier University of Louisiana, the only Catholic HBCU in the nation. Dr. Verret was unanimously elected as President of Xavier by the Board of Trustees in 2015.

As President of Xavier, Dr. Verret leads efforts to build enrollment, enhance the quality and diversity of academic programs, develop the faculty, promote interdisciplinary efforts, create partnerships, and honor Xavier’s founding legacy to contribute to a more just and humane society. Under Dr. Verret’s leadership, Xavier has formed several partnerships and broadened academic programs focused on Public Health, including utilizing new avenues of funding to implement new programs and expand existing ones.

Dr. Verret previously served as provost at Savannah State and Wilkes Universities and as dean of the Misher College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. In addition, he served as faculty in Chemistry at Tulane University and at Clark Atlanta University, where he chaired the Department of Chemistry. During his tenure at Tulane and Clark Atlanta, he simultaneously held adjunct appointments in Immunology at the Tulane and Morehouse Schools of Medicine. He has published numerous scientific reports and articles on his scientific work.