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Robert J. Jones

1951–

United States

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Robert James Jones (born 1951) is an American crop physiologist who has been the 34th president of the University of Washington since August 2025. He served as the 10th chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from September 2016 to June 2025 and as the 19th president of the State University of New York at Albany from January 2013 to September 2016.

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