Daniel Ennis, the chief financial and operating officer at The Johns Hopkins University, will be Duke’s next executive vice president effective December 1, Duke President Vincent E. Price announced on August 21. He follows Tallman Trask III, who is stepping down on November 30 after 25 years in the role and will continue to serve in an advisory capacity to the university. 

Since 2010, Ennis has served as senior vice president for finance and administration at Johns Hopkins, where he oversees the university’s budget, finance, treasury and investments, as well as internal audits, facilities and real estate, human resources, information technology, purchasing, security and risk management. He also has a key role in the operational and financial oversight of the university’s school of medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine (the partnership between the school of medicine and Johns Hopkins Health System).

Before coming to Johns Hopkins, Ennis was executive dean for administration at Harvard Medical School. He previously served as Harvard University’s associate vice president for finance and financial planning, interim director of treasury management and director of budgets, financial planning and institutional research. A graduate of Boston College, where he was selected for a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Ennis earned an MBA and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard and previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. and McKinsey and Co. You can read more about him here.

Ennis will be a visionary and transformative leader for Duke. He brings extraordinarily strong experience at a great research university and a great medical school, along with a deep commitment to the core values that are so important to us. Price said in his email to the university community that he is grateful to the search committee, chaired by Fuqua School of Business Dean Bill Boulding, for their diligent work over the past year and is equally grateful to Trask for his extraordinary service to Duke since 1990 and for his willingness to extend his tenure through the pandemic and to continue serving as an advisor to the university in the future.