Henry Johnson Eyring (born September 19, 1963) is an American academic administrator who served as the seventeenth president of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) from 2017 to 2023.
[1] From 1989 to 1998, Eyring worked at a Cambridge, Massachusetts management-consulting firm, Monitor Group, which was founded in 1983 by six entrepreneurs with Harvard Business School (HBS) ties.
[2] On February 7, 2017, Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles announced that Eyring would succeed Clark Gilbert as president of BYU–Idaho, effective April 10, 2017.
[11] Eyring has also served as a trustee of Southern Utah University and is an adjunct fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.
[7] Eyring's oldest son, Henry, is a BYU–Idaho and HBS graduate and, since August 2022, an assistant accounting professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.