David McClain

David McClain has been a Director of ML Macadamia Orchards LP since September 2000 and is a Member-Audit, Nominating, Compensation and Corporate Governance Committees.
He has been President of the 10-campus University of Hawai'i System since March 2006 and was appointed an Interim President on August 15, 2004 and Vice President-Academic Affairs on July 1, 2003.
From 2000 to 2003, he was Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa and First Hawaiian Bank Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Management.
Dr. McClain was an Interim Vice President for Research of the University of Hawaii System from February to September 2003.
Dr. McClain was Dean and First Hawaiian Bank Professor of Leadership and Management at the University of Hawaii's Shidler College of Business from 2000 to 2003.
He joined the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1991 as the Henry A. Walker, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Business Enterprise and Professor of Financial Economics and Institutions.
Dr. McClain is a Director of First Insurance Company and serves as a Member of several nonprofit boards in Hawaii.
He has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and Boston University, where he chaired the Department of Finance and Economics.
Dr. McClain served as Senior Staff Economist-Council of Economic Advisors to President Jimmy Carter and the Head-International Economic Information Services for Data Resources, Inc. He received a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and a BA degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Kansas in 1968.