Executive Management
Christopher Cassirer, ScD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Capella Education Company
President & Director, Capella University
Christopher Cassirer, ScD, MPH
Christopher Cassirer serves as senior vice president of Capella Education Company and president of Capella University. He was appointed to these positions in February 2009 after serving as acting president since May 2008. He has also served on Capella University's Board of Directors since October 2008. He joined Capella University's School of Human Services as a faculty director in 2005 and was appointed dean of the school in 2006. Previously, Cassirer was an associate professor and director in the Department of Health Services Management and Leadership at The George Washington University from 2003 to 2005; chair of executive studies and associate professor of healthcare management at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management from 1999 to 2003; co-founder and CEO of the Partnership for Patient Safety in Chicago from 1999 to 2000; and assistant vice president for knowledge services with MMI Companies Inc. from 1998 to 1999. Cassirer earned his Doctor of Science in Health Policy and Management and completed his post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy from the Yale University School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University.
