Daniel Greenstein

While directing the Gates Foundation's Postsecondary Success division, he worked with other higher education leaders nationwide on initiatives intended to boost educational-attainment, in particular among low-income and minority students.^[4] Before joining the Gates Foundation, he was Vice Provost for Academic Planning, Programs, and Coordination at the University of California's Office of the President, where he was responsible for a range of information, publishing, and broadcast services (the California Digital Library, the University of California Press, and UCTV), off-campus instructional programs (e.g. Education Abroad) as well as academic planning and accountability.^{[citation needed]} With Christopher Edley, he led an initiative to evaluate the effectiveness of online instruction in UC's undergraduate curriculum and, more generally, as a strategy for expanding access to high-quality university education.^{[citation needed]}

Greenstein has served as Director of the California Digital Library (2002–7), of the Digital Library Federation (1999–2002) and was founding director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service and co-director of the Resource Discovery Network, both in the UK.^{[citation needed]} He holds degrees from the University of Oxford (DPhil), where he was a member of Corpus Christi College, and Pennsylvania (MA, BA) and began his career as a member of the history faculty at the University of Glasgow.^{[citation needed]}

As chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), Greenstein faced criticism in 2021 for threatening to dissolve the system.^[5][6][7] He announced his pending resignation on July 23, 2024.^[8]