Charles Duane Baker Jr. is an American businessman and politician who is the current president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 72nd governor of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023, and held two cabinet positions under two previous governors of Massachusetts. He also served for ten years as the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Official portrait, 2018
Baker at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School on February 4, 2010.
Baker at the Rappaport Center again on February 4, 2014.
Baker's first gubernatorial portrait
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
NCAA's national office in Indianapolis
A men's soccer match between Canada's only NCAA school, Simon Fraser University, and Idaho's Northwest Nazarene University in 2012
2006 NCAA championship banners hang from the ceiling of the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis
NCAA national championship trophies, rings, and watches won by UCLA teams
