William Chase Richardson (born May 11, 1940) is a director of American electricity company Exelon

Exelon

Exelon Corporation is an electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in the Chase Tower in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago. It was created in October, 2000 by the merger of PECO Energy Company and Unicom, of Philadelphia and Chicago respectively. Unicom owned Commonwealth Edison...

, a position that he has held since March 2005. He serves on Exelon's Audit, Compensation, Risk Oversight and Corporate Governance Committees. Dr. Richardson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College and a Master in Business Administration degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Dr Richardson was previously a graduate dean and vice provost for research at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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, executive vice president and provost at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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 (1984–1990), and held various positions at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. He later became president of Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 (1990–1995). Dr Richardson devoted his academic career to researching the financing and organization of health services in the USA.

Dr Richardson left academia to head the Kellogg Foundation (1995–2005) and became chair and co-trustee of The Kellogg Foundation Trust (1996–2007).

Dr Richardson has also been a director

Director (business)

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 on the boards of the Kellogg Company

Kellogg Company

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 (1996–2007), the Bank of New York

Bank of New York

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 (1998–2007), CSX Corporation

CSX Corporation

CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 by the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries and eventually merged the various railroads owned by those predecessors into a single line that became known as CSX Transportation. Based in Richmond, Virginia, USA after the merger, in 2003...

 (1992–2008), and Mercantile Bankshares.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He won its David Rall Award in 2007.