CHRISTOPHER COX
SENIOR SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE
UCI
WHY: During 23-year Washington career, was White House counsel to then President Ronald Reagan, chair of the SEC during 2007-08 financial crisis, chair of the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the fifth-ranking elected leader in the House.
IN THE NEWS: Published “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn” recently with Simon & Schuster, becoming a presidential biographer.
NOTABLE: Currently is a Senior Scholar in Residence at the University of California, Irvine, a Life Trustee of the University of Southern California, Chair of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee for Southern California and the Pacific, and a member of several nonprofit and for-profit boards.
QUOTABLE: His book “offers a panoramic reassessment of Wilson’s life, focused on his decidedly regressive role in the movement for racial equality and his long-standing opposition to women’s suffrage.”
