Now more than ever, we remain focused on advancing our mission and adapting to meet the needs of our community. The Economic Club of Indiana continues to be the forum for central Indiana’s current and emerging leaders to be challenged by extraordinary speakers and engaged collectively in advancing great ideas for the common good.

Since July 2007, Michael A. McRobbie has served as the 18th president of one of the largest universities in the United States, Indiana University. Since coming to IU in 1997 he served in multiple roles including Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer in 1997, Vice President for Research in 2003, and Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs for IU’s Bloomington campus in 2006. While President, McRobbie has led Indiana University though a major expansion in the size, quality, and diversity of its student body, including the largest academic restructuring in its history. Most recently, IU celebrated it’s Bicentennial in January of 2020 and under McRobbie’s leadership achieved their ambitions goal of raising $3 billion in the largest fundraising campaign in IU’s history.