Martin “Marty” Meehan is a former Congressman and the current President of the University of Massachusetts. As president, Marty has overseen unprecedented growth across Massachusetts’s five-campus system— including record enrollment, research expenditures topping $800 million, and a statewide economic impact nearing $8.3 billion. Since his prior impactful tenure as Chancellor of Umass Lowell, he has championed public higher education as a driver of social mobility and economic development.  

Prior to his higher-education leadership, Marty represented Massachusetts's 5th congressional district for 14 years in the United States House of Representatives, where he passed a bipartisan campaign finance reform law and served on the Armed Services and Judiciary committees. Before his time in Congress, Marty’s public roles included First Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office and Deputy Secretary of State for the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth.