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Executive Administrative Team 

Germán Bollero

Dean, Robert A. Easter Chair

Anna Ball

Acting Director, College of ACES Associate Dean for Academic Programs

Sharon Nickols-Richardson

Associate Dean and Director of University of Illinois Extension and Outreach

Elizabeth Olson

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Rodney Johnson

Associate Dean of Research, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station

Mary Arends-Kuenning

Associate Dean, International Programs

Nichole Isaac

Assistant Dean for Business and Administration

Joe Bohn

Executive Director of Human Resources

Stephen Wald

Director of External Communications and Government Relations

James H. Kim

Director of Information Technology & College CIO

Julia Abel

Director of Strategy, Planning and Implementation

Academic Department Heads

Ronaldo Maghirang

Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Sarah Low

Head of Agricultural & Consumer Economics

Dan Shike

Interim Head of Animal Sciences

Adam Davis

Head of Crop Sciences

Nicki Engeseth

Head of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Ramona Oswald

Head of Human Development and Family Studies

Robert Schooley

Head of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences