Santa Clara University

Paul Locatelli, S.J.

President, Secretary of Higher Education for the Society of Jesus, and Professor of Accounting

Paul Locatelli, S.J., became president of Santa Clara University in 1988. In addition to his duties as president, he has been given the assigment by the Superior General of the Society of Jesus to serve as Secretary for Higher Education for all Jesuit colleges and universities in the world.

Father Locatelli has written and spoken on topics ranging from service-learning in accounting, Jesuit education in a globalizing world, educating for justice, Catholic education in the 21^st century, globalization: integration and solidarity, to the role of the teaching scholar.

Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities; Catholic Relief Services; Silicon Valley Leadership Group; and the Bill Hannon Foundation. In addition, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley; and the Society of Jesus International Committee for Jesuit Higher Education.

Most recently Father received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from the University of San Francisco (USF), 2008. Among his other awards are the 2007 Community Builder Honoree from the People Acting in Community Together; the 2005 Distinguished Service award from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Association of Santa Clara Valley; the Exemplary Community Leadership Award from the National Conference of Community and Justice/Silicon Valley chapter; and the Spirit of Silicon Valley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.

Locatelli previously served as Academic Vice President and Associate Dean of Business at Santa Clara as well as a member of the Accounting faculty. He received a baccalaureate degree from Santa Clara, Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1971, and a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley in 1974. He became a Jesuit in 1962 and was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1974.