Richard W. Lariviere, whose career in academia and business is grounded in his expertise on India, is President Emeritus of the Field Museum, Chicago. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and is the former Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin; Provost and Executive Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kansas; and President of the University of Oregon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the American Oriental Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.