Christopher L. Eisgruber

His wife, Lori A. Martin, is a partner in the New York office of the law firm WilmerHale, and they have a son, Danny, who is 18 years old and a freshman at the University of Chicago as of September 2016.

Eisgruber was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Eisgruber was elected as Princeton's 20th president on April 21, 2013, and assumed the office on July 1, 2013. A formal installation ceremony was held on September 22, 2013.

Eisgruber was formally installed as Princeton's 20th president on September 22, 2013. Eisgruber is the first Princeton president who received his undergraduate degree from the university since Robert Goheen, who served from 1957 to 1972.

Eisgruber was raised Catholic and married his wife in an Episcopal church. While helping his son, then in the fourth grade, with a school project, he discovered that his Berlin-born mother, who had arrived in New York as an eight-year-old refugee, was Jewish. Today, Eisgruber identifies as a nontheist Jew. His wife is Episcopalian. In 2009, a Holocaust claims tribunal awarded Eisgruber and his three sisters 162,500 Swiss francs, representing the value of the bank account of their maternal great-grandfather, Salomon Kalisch.

After clerking, Eisgruber taught at New York University Law School for eleven years, from 1990 to 2001, before coming to Princeton. From 2001 to 2004, Eisgruber was the director of Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs. He served as the provost of Princeton from 2004 to 2013.

Eisgruber graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1983, receiving an A.B. in physics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his senior thesis, titled "The global implications of local violations of the energy conditions", under the supervision of Malcolm Perry; his thesis addressed topics in the theory of general relativity. He also studied political theory with Jeffrey K. Tulis "Presidential Installation: The Ideal of a Liberal Arts University". During his junior year at Princeton, he was a member of the Elm Club. In 1987, he received an MLitt in politics from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and he earned a JD cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988, where he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review.

Eisgruber captained the 1979 U.S. National High School Chess Champion team in his senior year at Corvallis High School

Eisgruber is a native of Lafayette, Indiana. Eisgruber moved to Oregon with his family in 1973. His father was the dean of the School of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University.

Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber (born September 24, 1961) is an American legal scholar and university administrator who is serving as the 20th and current President of Princeton University, where he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values.