Jeffrey A. Robinson, Ph.D. is the Provost of Rutgers University-Newark, effective July 1, 2022, and is the Prudential Chair in Business at Rutgers University and Professor of Management and Global Business. Robinson is an award-winning business school professor, international speaker and entrepreneur. Since 2008, he has been a leading faculty member at Rutgers Business School where he served as academic director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development and research fellow of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Development.

Through his research, business leadership and community activities he makes direct impacts corporate workplaces, entrepreneurs and economic development policy in the state of New Jersey and beyond.