Editing Richard C. Levin (section)

{{Short description|American economist}}
{{redirect|Richard Levin|the head of design at BBC Television|Richard Levin (designer)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Richard C. Levin
| image               = Richard Levin at the India Economic Summit 2008.jpg
| order               = 22nd
| title               = [[President of Yale University]]
| term_start          = 1993
| term_end            = 2013
| predecessor         = [[Howard R. Lamar]]
| successor           = [[Peter Salovey]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1947|04|07|mf=y}}
| birth_place         = [[San Francisco, California]], U.S.
| profession          = [[economics|Economist]]
| spouse              = Jane Levin
| children            = 4, including [[Jonathan Levin (economist)|Jonathan]]
| signature           = Rick Levin Signature.svg
| education           = [[Stanford University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Merton College, Oxford]] ([[Bachelor of Letters|BLitt]])<br />[[Yale University]] ([[PhD]])
}}
'''Richard Charles Levin''' (born April 7, 1947) is an American [[economist]] and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd [[President of Yale University]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kelley|first=Brooks Mather|year=1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2aDRhohtx8C|title=Yale: A History|location=New Haven|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|isbn=0-300-07843-9}}</ref> From March 2014 to June 2017, he was chief executive officer of [[Coursera]].<ref name=blog>{{cite news|title=Welcome Rick Levin as CEO of Coursera|url=http://blog.coursera.org/post/80601201906/welcome-rick-levin-as-ceo-of-coursera|newspaper=Coursera Blog|date=24 March 2014|author=Daphne Koller|author-link=Daphne Koller|author2=Andrew Ng|author2-link=Andrew Ng|access-date=24 March 2014|archive-date=27 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327031608/http://blog.coursera.org/post/80601201906/welcome-rick-levin-as-ceo-of-coursera|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Maggioncalda">{{cite web|last1=Sawers|first1=Paul|title=Coursera gets a new CEO: former Financial Engines CEO Jeff Maggioncalda replaces Rick Levin|url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/13/coursera-ceo-rick-levin-steps-down-to-be-replaced-by-former-financial-engines-ceo-jeff-maggioncalda/|website=VentureBeat|access-date=5 July 2017|date=13 June 2017}}</ref>