Roger Martin

ROGER H. MARTIN, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant with the firm, and brings over 35 years of experience in higher education administration to our search team. For 20 years he was the president of two liberal arts colleges in the United States, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland Virginia and Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. From 1980 to 1986, he was the associate dean at Harvard University’s Divinity School responsible for development and planning as well as teaching British church history. Before coming to Harvard, Dr. Martin served as Executive Assistant to the President and Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees at Middlebury College and in various development and teaching positions at New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Since retiring as a college president in 2007, Dr. Martin has served as a Senior Consultant with Mather Leigh Ltd of Montreal, Canada, a consulting firm that specializes in helping British and British Commonwealth schools and universities develop North American-style development operations. In this capacity he worked with the College of the Bahamas in Nassau during the 2008 and 2009 academic years to help develop an annual fund operation that will compliment this institution’s evolution into Bahamas’ national university.

Dr. Martin is currently acting as fundraising counsel to the United Nations Association-USA in New York City. He also serves (in a voluntary capacity) as President and Vice Chair of the British Schools and Universities Foundation, also in New York City, making him knowledgeable about many British and British Commonwealth educational institutions.

Dr. Martin is a well known British Historian who has published extensively in the field of 18th and 19th century British church history. He has also authored several articles on higher education leadership in the Association of Governing Board’s Trusteeship Magazine. Last year his new book, Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again, was published by the University of California Press and will appear in a paperback this month. He is working on a new book with the working title Frosh: The Transition from High School to College in American Culture.

Dr. Martin is the recipient of four honorary doctorates and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Drew University 2003.

Besides attending Drew from which he received a Bachelor of Arts, he holds a Bachelor of Divinity from Yale, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford. He also spent a year at the University of Edinburgh studying Scottish church history.