Henry (Hank) Webber is the founder and Managing Principal of Urban Impact Advisors, a national consulting firm that works in higher education, innovation districts and community and economic development. He is a nationally recognized higher education and community and economic development leader. For the past 35 years, he has made major contributions to Chicago and St Louis and helped lead the University of Chicago and Washington University in St Louis, two of America’s largest and finest research universities.
From 2008 until the end of 2021, Webber served as Executive Vice Chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis. He was the University’s Chief Administrative Officer through 2020, overseeing a wide variety of administrative and external affairs functions including on and off campus University real estate and facilities, human resources, University operations, public affairs, information technology and security with combined operating and capital budgets of over $500M annually and over 1600 University and contracted staff. In 2020 he became Washington University’s Executive Vice Chancellor for Civic Affairs and Strategic Planning, and led a university-wide effort to strengthen the University as a teaching, research and patient care leader while making the St Louis region stronger and more equitable.
EDUCATION
- Master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Brown University.
