Dr. Robert J. Jones is a Board Member of the Council on Higher Education of RIDGE-LANE LP.

Dr. Jones serves as Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - the flagship institution of the state university system, which contains 14 colleges with 150 undergraduate and 100 graduate programs, as well as a Research Park home to innovation centers for 90 start-up companies and multinational corporations.

He was President of State University of New York - Albany (SUNY), as well as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Programs at University of Minnesota System.