William Louis Jenkins[1] is a South African-born veterinary scientist who served as the fourth President of the Louisiana State University System[2][3][4] in the USA until his retirement in 2007.
Jenkins left South Africa for the United States, where he received a Ph.D. in veterinary medicine from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1970.
[3] After immigrating to the United States in 1978, Jenkins became a faculty member in the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology at Texas A&M University.
[6] Jenkins was appointed Dean of the Louisiana State University’s (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine in 1988 and was named Provost in 1993.
[5][3] He has delivered more than 200 lecturers and addresses in the USA and internationally, written more than 60 scientific articles and is the co-author of a textbook on veterinary pharmacology.