Richard J. Wood, dean of the Divinity School since 1996, will leave the University in January to become president of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia.

"Dean Wood has been an outstanding leader of the Yale Divinity School," said President Richard C. Levin. "Faced with the retirement of a generation of distinguished scholars, the school has wisely selected, and the Dean has ably recruited a new generation of such quality as to firmly secure Yale's position as the leading center for theological scholarship in the nation. Under Dean Wood's guidance, the school has begun an ambitious program of renovation that will restore the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle to its original beauty."

Last January, Wood announced his intention to leave Yale at the completion of his five-year term as dean.

Organized in the early 1920s, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia works in collaborative partnership with some 80 colleges and universities in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Its mission is to encourage a Christian presence in both Christian and secular schools. An autonomous, non-proselytizing, not-for-profit agency, the United Board is supported by nine North American Protestant denominations.

Wood, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale, is a specialist in Japanese philosophical and religious thought and ethics. He has chaired the Japan-U. S. Friendship Commission of the United States since 1994. He also co-chairs the U.S.-Japan Cultural and Educational Conference, an advisory body to the governments of both countries. Before coming to Yale, Wood was a teacher and administrator at Whittier and Earlham Colleges, serving as president of the latter for 11 years.

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