Richard (Dick) Celeste has an unusual career trajectory.  Following his education at Yale and Oxford, he worked at the Peace Corps headquarters; as Personal Assistant to the US Ambassador in India; in real estate development; served as a state legislator in Ohio and as Lt. Governor.  

After a stint as Director of the Peace Corps, Celeste was elected to two terms as Governor of Ohio. He then headed a small economic development consultancy until 1997, when he returned to India as US Ambassador. From 1990 until his departure for India, Celeste also chaired the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable at the National Academy of Sciences. 

In 2002 he become the 12th President of Colorado College, where he served for nine years.  He has been and is a member or chair of a number of corporate and not for profit boards, including Fabindia and Organic India USA.  He and his wife Jacqueline have a son, Sam, who is 24, and he has six grown children from a previous marriage.