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Daniel Ennis
Daniel G. Ennis, Executive Vice President

Daniel G. Ennis joined Duke University in December 2020 as Executive Vice President and serves as the university's chief financial and operating officer. He also shares oversight of student affairs, climate and sustainability, and the university's economic development programs. As one of the university's senior executive officers, Ennis works closely with the president, university and health system Boards of Trustees, and academic and administrative leaders in service of the core missions of the university.

Prior to his appointment at Duke, Ennis was senior vice president for finance and administration at Johns Hopkins for ten years. Ennis led several innovative initiatives to strengthen the finances of the university resulting in significant growth in its cash and net assets. He also helped enhance the university's benefit programs through meaningful investments in childcare facilities and vouchers and established birth recovery and parental leave policies.

Before joining Johns Hopkins, Ennis was executive dean for administration at Harvard Medical School, and prior to that, served as Harvard University's associate vice president for finance and financial planning.

Ennis began his career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. and worked at McKinsey and Co. as a consultant, where he led a strategic review of Harvard's central administration that resulted in several significant organizational changes.

Ennis is a 1992 graduate of Boston College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and was selected for a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. In 1998, he earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.