A. Dale Whittaker (born August 13, 1961) is an American academic and senior program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
[5] After earning his master's degree, Whittaker was hired at Texas Instruments for their artificial intelligence development group where he was awarded a USDA National Needs Fellowship for post-secondary education.
[11] Due to his administrative success and academic background, Whittaker was named a finalist for the position of Iowa State University president in 2017.
[14] An independent report delivered in January 2019 found that while Whittaker was never informed of the illegal financing, the Board would often approve projects with little concern to the access of funds.
[15] With UCF threatened with penalties and state senator Randy Fine proposing to close the university, Whittaker offered his resignation as president to calm the ongoing issues.