Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber (born September 24, 1961)[1][2] is an American academic and legal scholar who is serving as the 20th President of Princeton University, where he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values.

Eisgruber graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1983, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in physics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

[9] After graduating from Princeton, Eisgruber won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend University College, Oxford, where he earned an MLitt in politics in 1987.

Upon his return from Oxford, Eisgruber attended the University of Chicago Law School where he graduated cum laude with a JD in 1988.

While helping his son, then in the fourth grade, with a school project, he discovered that his Berlin-born mother, who had arrived in New York as an eight-year-old refugee, was Jewish.

[24] In 2009, a Holocaust claims tribunal awarded Eisgruber and his three sisters 162,500 Swiss francs, representing the value of the bank account of their maternal great-grandfather, Salomon Kalisch.