Linda P.B. Katehi

Pisti Basile "Linda" Katehi-Tseregounis (born January 30, 1954) is a Greek-American engineer and university administrator. Since 2009, she has served as the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis. Katehi was born in Athens and grew up on Salamis Island in Greece. She received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1977. Katehi, was a student during the uprising against the dictatorial regime that occurred at that university in 1973, an uprising that was violently crushed on November 17 by a combined military and police force. She came to the United States in 1979, then earned a master’s degree and doctorate in electrical engineering at the Henry Samueli...