Dr. Charles Lee
Mississippi State University

Biography:

Charles Lee is vice president for agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine at Mississippi State. The vice president for agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine oversees the MSU Extension Service, MAFES and the Forest and Wildlife Research Center. The office also shares administrative responsibility with the vice president for academic affairs for the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Forest Resources and Veterinary Medicine.

He was MSU dean of forest resources and associate director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station 1978-83 where he was responsible for academic program development for all institutions in the A&M system, as well as for strategic analysis of policy issues facing the system.

In 1994 and 1995, he served as the university's interim executive vice president and provost. For eight years, he held various roles in the system's statewide agriculture program, including four years as the system's deputy vice chancellor of agriculture and executive associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

He was professor and head of the forest science department at Texas A&M from 1983 to 1989 and also has served as associate director and interim director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

Lee holds a bachelor's degree in forestry and a Ph.D. in forestry/genetics from North Carolina State University. He also has done graduate work at Duke University.