Jason King is UTSA’s Associate Vice President of Strategic Risk Management and Chief Legal Officer. As UTSA continues moving toward its bold destinations, he strategically manages institutional risk while providing comprehensive legal advice to university leadership. Mr. King leads an umbrella of teams under the President’s Office to ensure consistency with the university’s mission and serve the best interests of UTSA, including its duties to follow the law and meet its obligations to the public, governments and third parties. He works alongside university leadership to protect and promote integrity and ethical conduct, practice preventive law and enable stakeholders to accomplish institutional objectives. Most recently, Mr. King served as the chief compliance and ethics officer for the University of Texas System Administration, where he re-established the Office of Systemwide Compliance, which coordinates hundreds of compliance professionals across UT System institutions, mitigates billions of dollars per year in risk, and protects students, faculty and staff from harm. Prior to UT System, Mr. King worked as an associate for Akers and Boulware-Wells, LLP and served as assistant general counsel for the Texas Ethics Commission. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from The University of Nebraska and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Baylor University. Jason is a licensed attorney in the State of Texas and is a certified compliance and ethics professional. Jason and his wife Jill are the proud parents of three children, Dante, Natalie and Emma.