The steering committee is charged with providing overall guidance for the presidential debate and related programs.
Steering committee co-chairs
- Michael Barr, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president for government relations
Steering committee members
- Henry Baier, associate vice president for facilities and operations
- Thomas Baird, vice president for development
- Anne Curzan, dean of LSA
- Lynette Clemetson, director of Wallace House
- Amy Dittmar, vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs
- Alec Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of the College of Engineering
- Domenico Grasso, UM-Dearborn chancellor
- Timothy Lynch, vice president and general counsel
- Warde Manuel, Donald R. Shepherd Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
- Jonathan Massey, dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Kallie Michels, vice president for communications
- Elizabeth Moje, dean of the School of Education
- Jonathan Overpeck, Samuel A. Graham Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability
- Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer
- Robert Sellers, vice provost for equity, inclusion and chief diversity officer
- Simone Himbeault Taylor, interim vice president for student life
- Eddie Washington, executive director of the Division of Public Safety and Security
