Thomas R. Tritton is president and CEO of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. He is the second president of CHF, succeeding Arnold Thackray, who founded the organization in Philadelphia 26 years ago and will continue with CHF as chancellor.

Tritton served as the 12th president of Haverford College from 1997 to 2007. He is a cancer chemotherapy research expert whose work has been funded for the past 25 years by the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health.

A past deputy director of the Vermont Comprehensive Cancer Center, a designated center of the National Cancer Institute, Tritton is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology.

Before assuming the CHF presidency, Tritton spent the fall 2007 semester at Harvard University as president in residence at the Graduate School of Education. He worked with graduate students in higher education, wrote and taught about leadership and the college presidency, and designed a new course, “Social Justice.”