Ed Burger

Welcome to Count Me In with Della and Deanna. Today we feature a lively conversation with Dr. Edward Burger, President and CEO of St. David’s Foundation in Austin, Texas. Ed earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Connecticut College and his PhD in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. He held a postdoctoral position at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He spent 23 years on the faculty at Williams College where he received a number of awards for his teaching, including the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Mathematical Assocaition of America, the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University, and a Global Hero in Education Designation from Microsoft Corporation, among many others. His mathematical research focuses on Number Theory. In 2013, he became the 15th president of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In Januray, 2020, he assumed the role of President and CEO of St. David’s Foundation in Austin, Texas. In this conversation, you will learn about Ed’s successful strategy for making friends in college (spoiler alert: it involves standing in line), a single moment that changed the trajectory of his life, how he links finding vocation with finding yourself, about life as a college president, and about how the skills of mathematics transfer to many professions. Ed’s love for mathematics and its potential for our lives will inspire and encourage you. So, please join us as we talk with Ed.