Gregory Lynn Geoffroy was the 14th president of Iowa State University, from 2001 to 2012.
He only was in this position a year because in 1989 he became dean of the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State.
He retained this position until 1997 when he left Pennsylvania State to serve as Senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Geoffroy remained in this last position until he assumed the presidency of Iowa State.
After leaving Iowa State he assumed his new role as chairman of the board of trustees at Ashford University.