Christine Clements

1st Term: Concludes October 2009

Chris Clements is currently the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She served as the Dean of the College of Business & Economics from July 2002 until August 2008. Prior to that, she served as interim dean for one year, chair of the Management Department for six years and spent one year as a Fellow in the Provost’s office. She has been a member of the faculty at UW-W since 1990. Before coming to UW-Whitewater, she was on the faculty at North Dakota State University for four years.

Chris currently serves on the Pre-accreditation Committee and the Nominating Committee for AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and the Board of Directors for Milwaukee FEI (Financial Executives International). She served as Chair of the Women Administrators in Management Education (WAME) AACSB International Affinity Group and as a member of the WAME Steering Committee.

Chris has a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Arkansas, an MBA from UW-La Crosse and a B. A. from UW-Madison in Political Science and Scandinavian Studies. Before becoming dean, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Organization Theory & Effectiveness. She has presented and published research primarily in the areas of Leadership, Gender Issues in the Workplace, and Organization Theory and Design, and has been involved in the development of corporate training programs in team building and conflict management.

Personal Notes

Chris is married to Will Drago, who is a Professor of Strategic Management at UW-Whitewater, and has three children. Her son just completed his service in the Army and is making plans to attend college. Chris also has two teenage daughters, one of whom is a hockey player. They help her maintain her sense of balance, as well as her sense of humor.