Dr. Andrew Rehfeld is the 10th President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), a position he has held since 2019. Before becoming president, he was a tenured faculty member in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Rehfeld holds a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Chicago, where he also received his Ph.D. in Political Science. His academic research focuses on the intersection of democracy, human rights, justice, and institutional design, as well as the political uses of the Hebrew Bible. He is the author of The Concept of Constituency (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution (2018). His work has appeared in leading journals in his field, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Political Philosophy.