Dr. Daniel A. Wubah has been the president of Millersville University since July 2018. Prior to that he was the Provost at Washington and Lee University. His previous positions include deputy provost and vice president for undergraduate education at Virginia Tech; associate provost and professor of zoology at University of Florida; associate dean, professor of biology and special assistant to the president at James Madison University and associate professor and department chair at Towson University.

Within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, he serves as the Vice Chair of the Commission of Presidents and the presidential liaison to the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees (PACT). He has earned several honors including an honorary doctorate from the University of Cape Coast, a University of Georgia Groundbreaker article and featured in both the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal’s Power 100 and City and State Higher Education Power 100 lists for four consecutive years (2020-2024).

Currently, he is a board member of several organizations including the Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital and Landis Communities. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), chair the AASCU Committee on International Education and a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the AASCU Millennium Leadership Institute.

He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the African Scientific Institute. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on how to prepare the science workforce for the 21st century. He was a member of a National Academy of Sciences panel that studied the scientific basis for estimating air emission from animal feeding operations. He was a trustee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) for two 3-year terms.

Dr. Wubah earned his B.Sc. with Honors in Botany and Dip. Ed. in Education from the

University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He earned M.S. in biology from the University of Akron, and Ph.D. in botany and microbiology from the University of Georgia. In addition, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the EPA research lab in Athens, GA.

In private life, Dr. Wubah is a chief (Toapentenhene) of Breman Asikuma Traditional area in the Central Region of Ghana. His royal name is Nana Ofosu Peko III. He and his wife, Judith, have two daughters and two grandchildren.